One of the French Revolution’s main symbols is a guillotine, or as the French once said, the most humane way to execute someone. A revolution is known as a forced way to overthrow a government, and can occur when things are not in the citizens’ favour. “Why did the French choose to revolt?”, you may ask. In pre-revolutionary France, citizens faced an absolute monarchy, and were unhappy under the rule of King Louis XVI. They tolerated the Old Regime, and the drastic differences between social classes. Many things played a part to spark the French Revolution, especially inflation, famine, deficit spending, and the uprise of new secular ideas known as the philosophies of The Enlightenment. Some may argue about the success of the revolution, and if it was worth it or not. In the video below, major events of the French Revolution are featured. Watch it yourself to take your stand, and to see if the sacrifice of walking into a guillotine was worth changing the unjust conditions of France.
March 14, 2023 at 2:36 pm
Nice video! I especially liked the part with the music and the people marching in Versailles.
While our revolutions are similar when it comes to the dictatorship before the start of the revolution, they are very different where there were clear social classes in France but there are only President Diaz, the wealthy people, and the poor people in Mexico.