Something that’s interesting about the French Revolution to me is that the more you read about it, not less, the better the radicals like Robespierre and Marat come out looking
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Mark Twain on the real Reign of Terror that gripped France - for far longer and with not a shred of the hand-wringing and denunciation:pic.twitter.com/Yf6d2gJb0d
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One of my least favorite people in history is William Wordsworth, who, along with other Romantics, was very superficially excited by the French Revolution, then made a big show of horror after actual revolutionary violence against an entrenched monarchy began.
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Imagine thinking Louis XVI's monarchy was "entrenched" and not willing to become constitutional.
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