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Referenced multiple times throughout the episode. Dominic quotes a passage from this book about the lynching of Berthier de Sauvigny. The book, published in 1989 for the Bicentenary of the Revolution, argues that violence was at the heart of the French Revolution from the very beginning. Also cited for information about Bastille tourism and revolutionary souvenirs.

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Mentioned when discussing Camille Desmoulins, described as 'really the hero of that book.' Desmoulins was the young revolutionary who gave speeches at the Café Foy and encouraged people to take up green cockades.

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Referenced when discussing how the mythology of the Bastille as a place of horror was invented. The author was a barrister sent to the Bastille in 1780 who published this book depicting it as a Gothic nightmare with clanking chains and torture, helping create the idea of the Bastille as a 'living tomb.'

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Described as compiled by French scholars in the 1980s for the Bicentenary. Cited for its entry on Lafayette, which describes him as 'an empty-headed political dwarf.'