The Attack in Popular Culture and Literature
The Attack of the Rue Saint-Nicaise was written by G. Lenotre, a historian who wrote mainly about the French Revolution and the Reign of terror.
The rue Saint Nicaise attack also provides the backdrop of "FOR THE KING" a 2010 historical novel by Catherine Delors
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Famous quotes containing the words attack, popular, culture and/or literature:
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“Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.”
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