City of Darkness, City of Light

In a story of courage, brilliance and perserverance, Marge Peircy recreates the role that women played in one of the most dramatic turning points in European history. Intermingled with the lives of Robespierre and Danton are the stories of the fictional characters and a city of opposites, from the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at Versailles to the desperation of the poor who riot for bread.