It might have the image of being a mighty revolt from the French commoners against the monarchy, but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI ...

whose family kept it for generations On This Day in History Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... It was also supremely democratic, killing both commoners and nobility in just the same way. Now this democratic killing machine was about ...