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symbolize revolt by low- and middle-income people

I guess Ms. Kidman did not learn most of the victims of the Reign of Terror were poor peasants.

2 posted on 02/10/2020 12:24:27 PM PST by C19fan
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And at the time it was called getting a Republican haircut.


8 posted on 02/10/2020 12:30:02 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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The French Revolution eventually used the “national razor” on its initial organizers, like Robespierre, and the unrest gave rise to Napoleon.


13 posted on 02/10/2020 12:34:04 PM PST by myerson
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...and the clergy...


16 posted on 02/10/2020 12:39:22 PM PST by MSF BU
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She may not also be aware that after a few years of the Reign of Terror, the people turned against Robespierre and the Jacobins and Robespierre ended up in the guillotine himself.


43 posted on 02/10/2020 2:01:51 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I guess Ms. Kidman did not learn most of the victims of the Reign of Terror were poor peasants.

And the leaders were intellectuals from wealthy backgrounds.

63 posted on 02/10/2020 6:48:37 PM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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I guess Ms. Kidman did not learn most of the victims of the Reign of Terror were poor peasants.

That is always the way it goes.

And that most of the really rich got out. The king and queen just waited too long because they could not believe their country had gone bat-crap crazy. (That is the technical term)

69 posted on 02/10/2020 10:39:54 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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