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Tacitus provides language for anti-Terror argument

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Tacitus provides language for anti-Terror argument

Desmoulins, Camille · Paris · Journalist and Convention deputy

Desmoulins used examples from Roman imperial history to criticize political fear and denunciation. Classical allusions allowed him to question contemporary repression indirectly but unmistakably.

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