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    Patrice McDonough
    • Jan 15
    • 2 min

    Insurrection: 1789/2021

    In France in October 1789, after a year of failed harvests and hunger—and sharpening tensions between the legislative and executive branc...

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    Patrice McDonough
    • Jan 1
    • 4 min

    Lethal Toilets and Deadly Stoves: the Perils of the Victorian Home

    That first flush must have been heaven. No shivery walks to the back-garden privy; no night-soil men hauling away the family’s collective...

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    Patrice McDonough
    • Dec 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    "The Doom of London"

    In December 1891, a hellish miasma once again held London in its grip. For much of the nineteenth century, recurring fogs had plagued Vic...

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    Patrice McDonough
    • May 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Reading Suggestions for the French Revolution

    If you are going to read just one history of the French Revolution, choose The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert (1980...

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    Patrice McDonough
    • May 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Picturing the Revolution

    Typing the words “French Revolution” into a Google search will produce a message something like this: “about 45,100,000 results (0.44 sec...

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    Patrice McDonough
    • May 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    What Happened to Them? The fates of some of the characters in Daughter of Time.

    Real-life characters who did not survive the Revolution: King Louis XVI went to the guillotine in January 1793; Marie-Antoinette followed...

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