Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist and historian whose The French Revolution: A History (1837) shaped how the English-speaking world understood revolutionary terror.
Carlyle's history provided the template of the revolutionary tribunal as mob-justice theater that Dickens adapted and Nolan further adapted for Bane's show trials.
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