The Great Fear of the French Revolution

The same workers who had been hired to take the presses apart came back, unlocked the doors and repaired them. They didn't even leave any one to guard the premises. And remember, adolf tierre has written one of the definitive histories of the french revolution - he knew exactly what he was doing. As these d gates and journalists met at perrier's house and compared their mutual aversion to violent revolution, a violent revolution was breaking out in the streets below.