Paris in the Terror tells the story of the Reign of Terror in terms of the chief performers in that particularly bloody phase of the French Revolution: Marat... Charlotte Corday... Danton... Mme. Roland... Robespierre... Camille Desmoulins... Fouche. Their very names recall the tumbrels, the "batches" of condemned prisoners, the guillotine, yet their lives and their roles in the Revolution are not generally familiar.