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Overview
This is an excellent book with a beautiful dust jacket ... good
Description
Down the street came a parade of children; they were beating a small keg for a
drum and playing homemade flutes. And on the ends of improvised pikes, they bore
the heads of three cats, still dripping blood. After witnessing the continuing
spectacle of human heads being daily paraded through Parisian streets, the
French children had become little monsters. Paris was so filled with hatred for
everyone and everything that reason, itself, stood decapitated. So during the
French Revolution, Parisians and their society sank into abject depravity. This
was the society that Jean Paul Marin, who at the age of twenty, was beaten and
imprisoned by the noble class and by the age of twenty five helped create the
inhumane society required for the great bloodletting of the Napoleonic wars.
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; "THE DEVIL'S LAUGHTER: BOOK CLUB W/ DUST JACKET")