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Ninety-three

It is 1793 in France, the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life. The architects of the Revolution--Marat, Danton, and Robespierre--have set up an embryo parliament called the Convention, designed to stem social chaos. It is 1793, and in Vendee a peasant woman is striving desperately to protect her three children while Republican troops engage in bloody battle with counter-revolutionaries. It is 1793; ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, intrigue is a way of life.

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