The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...
“TO THE average Englishman, the French revolution means no more than a pyramid of severed heads,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. Yet, since then, that great tsunami event which has shaped modern history ...
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