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The failings of the French Revolution

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What Happened After the French Revolution?

For almost three years, this new democracy was going ahead. But aristocrats who still had a measure of power in parliament were blocking the most radical reforms. It wasn't until 1792 that people like Robespierre and Donton started calling for blood. And they whipped up the prison crowds into a frenzy. Things got out of hand and people got impatient. So history has been totally sanitised by the French historians. They don't talk about these massacres at all except for saying, you know, anti-revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries were got rid of. But it was practically genocide in the west of France.

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