num_pages: 242
description: From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison to Charlotte Robespierre the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine women on both sides of the relocation were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom as she uncovers first-person accounts of more than eighty remarkable women memoirists--of all ages and backgrounds all victims of the French Revolution.
language: English
title: Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution
publisher: Astor & Lenox