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A Place of Greater Safety
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AuthorHilary Mantel
Cover artistJoseph Boze - "Portrait of Camille Desmoulins"
Eugène Delacroix - "Liberty Leading the People"
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
Published2006 (Viking Press)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
ISBN0-312-42639-9

A Place of Greater Safety is a 1992 novel by Hilary Mantel. It concerns the events of the French Revolution, focusing on the lives of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre from their childhood through the execution of the Dantonists, and also featuring hundreds of other historical figures.

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