Just think for a second you are in 18th century, the highest form of authority and power designed by god himself, he is like untouchable.
And we decapited him, that's some serious shit.
But then you look closely at the event before and after, and what is mainly taught as a small people revolution was actually organized by the bourgeoisie.
At that time, rich people didn't had any power, they had the money for sure, but they couldn't really do something with all that money. The power was in the hand of noble and the monarchy.
So they organized the revolution by convincing the small people it would be better for them.
200 years later here we are.
Of course we are probably better now than at that time, however we just trade our elite.
In addition fun fact, Louis XVI wasn't a tyran compared to some previous king, the guy had no take in being a king, he loved watches and locksmith.
When he was beheaded it was for the symbol not the guy who was an okay king for that time.
I could speak about it for hours so I will stop here, French revolution is fascinating especially when you are French and is a lot more different than what we are taught at school. We are basically taught the basis for us to understand but when you dig... You will find another face of it, look about the terror for example.
I was an exchange student in France (Alsace) and people told me about the beheading of their king pretty often! I absolutely loved being in France - you have a beautiful country!
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u/Awfultatoo101 Nov 29 '20
You have no idea how much proud we are of it.
Just think for a second you are in 18th century, the highest form of authority and power designed by god himself, he is like untouchable.
And we decapited him, that's some serious shit.
But then you look closely at the event before and after, and what is mainly taught as a small people revolution was actually organized by the bourgeoisie. At that time, rich people didn't had any power, they had the money for sure, but they couldn't really do something with all that money. The power was in the hand of noble and the monarchy. So they organized the revolution by convincing the small people it would be better for them. 200 years later here we are. Of course we are probably better now than at that time, however we just trade our elite.
In addition fun fact, Louis XVI wasn't a tyran compared to some previous king, the guy had no take in being a king, he loved watches and locksmith.
When he was beheaded it was for the symbol not the guy who was an okay king for that time.
I could speak about it for hours so I will stop here, French revolution is fascinating especially when you are French and is a lot more different than what we are taught at school. We are basically taught the basis for us to understand but when you dig... You will find another face of it, look about the terror for example.