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First published online March, 1994

Reviews : Fragile Lives. Violence,Power and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Arlette Farge. Translated by Carol Shelton. Cambridge: Polity Press,1993. Pp. 314. £13.95. The Gilded Youth of Thermidor. By François Gendron. Translated by James Cookson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press,1993. Pp. xix. [xii]. 212. £33.95