Title: The Devil's Laughter
Description: ***Giant Cardinal 4th Printing:*** 
***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.*--GoodReads Review***

Copy of First Giant Cardinal edition printed from LibraryThing:

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Subjects: Frank Yerby, History, Historical, Fiction, Literature, Books, Novel, Hardcover, Pocketbook, e-book, Family, Great, Love, Passion, Greed, Wealth, Grandeur, Chateaux, Prisons, Napoleanic Wars, French Revolution, Brutal, Gory, Bloody, Murders
Places: Heaven. Paris, France, Cote d'Azur
People: God. Parisians
Time periods: Revolution, 1789-1799