“I wrote a letter to an agent saying would you look at my book, it’s about the French Revolution, it’s not a historical romance, and the letter came back saying, we do not take historical romances. 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.Īlthough Mantel began writing the novel in 1975 and completed it in 1979, she was initially unable to find a publisher. Joseph Boze - "Portrait of Camille Desmoulins"Įugène Delacroix - " Liberty Leading the People"Ī Place of Greater Safety is a 1992 novel by Hilary Mantel.
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