“If the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent.” – Maximilien Robespierre. We stand here today in 1789, and no one is safe against the continuous laws of one ruler to another. Things are going way too extreme to what everyone had originally thought. No one wanted another dictatorship or monarchy. This is the French Revolution. Sometimes it is worthwhile to sit down and think, what is the difference between theory and practice? Or in other words, was the revolution genuinely worth it? From King Louis XVI to Robespierre to Napoleon. What has actually changed, and what was the price of that change? This video below contains 5 of the most significant events of The French Revolution; The Tennis Court Oath, Storming the Bastille, The Declaration of the Rights of Man, The Reign of Terror, and The Rise of Napoleon.
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