I’ve read A Tale of Two Cities. I took high school history. I have access to Wikipedia.
But I somehow can’t really believe it. Did a mass of unwashed peasants really kidnap hundreds, maybe thousands of aristocrats and send them to the guillotine? Were there trials? What was the legal pretense, if any, for doing this? Who was rich enough to get executed and who was considered not rich enough? Did it even really happen or was it just the royal family that was executed, and it was exaggerated over time?
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There’s one important part to this- the military defected to the side of the Revolution, or stood aside.
This is how a lot of revolutions get won, because if you have a trained military versus a crowd of peasants the revolution is going to be short and unsuccessful.
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