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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Yes, and it devolved to multiple factions of revolutionaries that turned on each other, as these experiments tend to do. Robespierre is a fine example of a zealot who sent many to the guillotine and eventually got sent there himself.
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