The French Revolution
| A revolution is, by definition, a forcible (that is, "using force"; that is, violent) overthrow of an existing government or social order. It's a bold and risky undertaking, treason, if you want to get right down to it, a betrayal which no government appreciates in the slightest. If the revolution fails, the revolutionaries lose big. (We're talking life in prison or even, "The Axe.") So you can imagine people must be suffering a desperate kind of unhappiness, frustration, and dissatisfaction under their
government in order to risk their lives for the possibility of something better. The years leading up to the French Revolution, which finally broke out in 1789, were just this desperate for the French people. << Previous Page | Next Page >> |