![]() Of course, the French Revolution is an awfully big topic. ![]() The tedium of the Revolution wolfing itself down was such that even really evocative set pieces concerning the Committee for Public Safety, the dread Tribunal, and the guillotine, seem hackneyed. ![]() The Terror was all the more terrifying because of its instability the hands that signed the death warrants one night couldn’t scratch their heads the next day. Whilst the revolution did send shock waves throughout the Monarchical world, at least for a time, it merely reflected the ripples that wash over any society that lacks broad consent as to its mores, or, alternately, lacks a ruler with sufficient iron in the fist. “ No law be left but the will of a prevailing force.” Thus Edmund Burke (1790) on the French Revolution which pretty well sums it up. ![]()
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