[.cnI redruM]

The French had problems the US didn't in our revolution.

1) Class Hatred. The smart, rich and attractive people were so hated that they couldn't lead anyone and generally ended up being guillotined.

2) Economic Desperation. Les Miserables is not entirely leftist propaganda. There was a pathetic socio-economic situation in Paris, Marseilles and other French cities.

The US colonies had their problems, but not as bad as France in the late 18th and early nineteenth centuries.

[Whispering Smith]

"The French had problems the US didn't in our revolution.

1) Class Hatred. The smart, rich and attractive people were so hated that they couldn't lead anyone and generally ended up being guillotined.

2) Economic Desperation. Les Miserables is not entirely leftist propaganda. There was a pathetic socio-economic situation in Paris, Marseilles and other French cities."

My reply follows.

1) Studies have determined that it was the smart, rich, and attractive people in the middle class who revolted. The inherited aristocracy and the Church neither of which had minimal qualifications other than blood lines, all the power, most property, and no taxes ended up being guillotined.

2) Les Miserables was written about the uprising in 1848 not the French Revolution initiated in1789.

[Podkayne]

Class Hatred. The smart, rich and attractive people were so hated that they couldn't lead anyone and generally ended up being guillotined.

The upper crust in France was an evil empire if ever there was one.