A Place of Greater Safety

The story of three young provincials of no great heritage who together helped to destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves: Camille Desmoulins, bisexual and beautiful, charming, erratic, untrustworthy;

Georges Jacques Danton, hugely but erotically ugly, a brilliant pragmatist who knew how to seize power and use it;

and Maximilien Robespierre, "the rabid lamb," who would send his dearest friend to the guillotine.

Each, none older than thirty-four, would die by the hand of the very revolution he had helped to bring into being.