... To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to? ...
Yes...The Reign of Terror...Clearly, the Jacobins went a little too far in revolutionary zeal...
On the other hand, they did pretty much rid in country of the elite aristocratic scum who had reduced formerly wealthy France to poverty.
Maybe there is a lesson in this history for contemporary USA?