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        82 months ago

        Or even during. People think about Louis XVI getting chopped, but never the people who did the chopping getting chopped x4.

        The real fruits of the revolution were from seeds it planted blooming generations later in the Victorian era. Living through it just sounds like it sucked; they were basically a generation of martyrs for a future of liberal democracy they barely got to see.