People say you have to break a few eggs.... or tens of thousands of eggs in a horrifically tyrannical and violent fashion.
wow...
The French.
How did this...
Become this....
By the time the Committee for Public Safety was in control of France, the Revolution had jumped the shark and any idea of liberty was out of fashion.
I read in a book tonight (The Glorious First of June) that when one man attempted to use the Rights of Man in his defense (which he was lucky because they thought trails for criminals and dissenters were a waste of time).... the Judge basically said that saying such was proof of sedition.
This was like President John Adams levels of paranoia....granted he didn't execute thousands of people, he just thought anyone who dared criticize him was the "debil" lol.
The CPS sent troops throughout France to squash "Counter Revolutionary ideas" or what we would call...logical people having a problem with bloodthirsty loons running the country.
They massacred thousands of people and threw them in mass graves.
Oh man... good times right? Thankfully that period did not last long, but still...the damage done in the short time it did.
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