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The French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Paperback)
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The French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Paperback)
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Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic
king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged
aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the
ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into
an idyll of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. In fact, as Stephen
Clarke argues in his informative and eye-opening account of the
French Revolution, almost all of this is completely untrue. In 1789
almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine
him. While the Bastille was being stormed by out-of-control
Parisians, the true democrats were at work in Versailles creating a
British-style constitutional monarchy. The founding of the Republic
in 1792 unleashed a reign of terror that caused about 300,000
violent deaths. And people hailed today as revolutionary heroes
were dangerous opportunists, whose espousal of Liberte, Egalite and
Fraternite did not stop them massacring political opponents and
guillotining women for demanding equal rights. Going back to
original French sources, Stephen Clarke has uncovered the
little-known and rarely told story of what was really happening in
revolutionary France, as well as what went so tragically and
bloodily wrong.
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