Revisionism in history knows no boundaries. Just in the past few years, we have been told that that comet may have glanced right off the dinosaurs, prodding a few toward flight and feathers; that the German blitzkrieg barely meandered across Europe; and that Genghis Khan was actually a sharing and caring and ecumenical leader, Bill Moyers with a mustache and colorful folk costume. So it was inevitable that we would get a revisionist history of the French Reign of Terror'the period from September, 1793, to July, 1794, when the Committee of Public Safety, in Paris, invented the modern thought crime, cut off the heads of its enemies, and created the apparatus of the totalitarian state. Since the time of Burke, through Carlyle's history of the French Revolution and, above all, Dickens's 'Tale of Two Cities,' the imagery of the Terror'of the sansculottes knitting as tumbrels rolled'has been lodged deep in our imagination. 'All perished, all , Friends, enemies, of all parties, ages,...
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