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The failings of the French Revolution

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The Revolution and What Goes Wrong

The full title of the obak is the revolution and what went wrong. What you see as the main thing that went wrong in the revolution was the purging of moderates, he says. He describes how mobs would go into prison prisons, massacre aristocrats,. but also some of them wandered into a woman's prison to rape loads of women. You read these stories, you can't imagine how the French ever got together as a nation again - there were no massacres like this.

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