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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“Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.”
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“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
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