The French Revolution
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Is There a Perfect Revolution Without Excesses?
There's never going to be a perfect revolution without excesses and errors. But it must always be compared to the brutalities and excesses of the status quo they are trying to overturn. And revolutions are messy affairs, and that's us the nature of the beast. So this is, now, we're going to move into the death of robespierre. And i think this is fascinating by myself - walking along the streets in seine paris hearing lectures about how robespierre came to his end. I meanonly points to it to you just how different the french and the american revolution are,. Even though they are often lumped together, which we talked about at the beginning
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