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Cultural Dissent

Green Left Weekly issue #699, 21 February 2007

A tale of two rolling heads

REVIEW As a schoolboy, Maximilien Robespierre gave a speech of welcome for King Louis XVI in a 1775 coronation ceremony at his college in Paris. Eighteen years later, Louis was decapitated by Robespierre’s revolutionary government. What, asks Ruth Scurr in her biography of Robespierre, had turned the ... » Sympathy with the working poor

REVIEW Kylie Tennant: A Life By Jane Grant National Library of Australia, 2006 156 pages, $24.95 (pb) » The vicious legacy of colonialism

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