num_pages: 749
description: Capturing the violence, tragedy, history, and drama of the French Revolution, this novel focuses on the families and loves of three men who led the Revolution--Danton, the charismatic leader and orator; Robespierre, the cold rationalist; and Desmoulins, the rabble-rouser.
language: English
title: A Place of Greater Safety
titlecomplete: A Place of Greater Safety
characters: Jean Paul Marat, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Madame Roland, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Fabre d'Englatine, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette, Camille Desmoulins, Antoine Barnave, Lucile Duplessis, Jacques René Hébert, Anne Théroigne, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis XVI of France, Georges-Jaques Danton
genres: French Revolution, British Literature, France, Historical, 18th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 9636
places: France
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Sunday Express Book of the Year
publisher: Picador