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Genocide and the Bicentenary: the French Revolution and the Revenge of the Vendee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Hugh Cough
Hugh Cough
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University College, Dublin
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The Historical Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , December 1987 , pp. 977 - 988
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