Was the French Revolution really that bad?
Was the French Revolution really that bad?
Jayden Russell
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Christian Williams
YES
The Drownings at Nantes (French: Noyades de Nantes) were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, was cast into the Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the murders ceased, as many as four thousand or more people, including innocent families with women and children, died in what Carrier himself called "the national bathtub".[1]
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The Vendée. Secher argued that the actions of the French republican government during the War in the Vendée was the first modern genocide.[51] Secher's claims caused a minor uproar in France amongst scholars of modern French history, as many mainstream authorities on the period – both French and foreign – published articles rejecting Secher's claims.[52][53][54][55][56]
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Oliver Mitchell
Read about it yourself and draw your own conclusions, don't tell people to do it for you.
William Gray
When you go from Louis XIV to Francois Hollande the only answer is yes
Justin Price
Gave us Bonaparte, but also modern European Republicanism. You win some you lose some.
Joshua Reyes
Only dumb christians use these as arguments against the revolution. Even though there is so much more to shit on.
>Louis XIV
He would have killed everyone with the taxes that nobody, even the richest, could pay. Hollande didn't raise the richest taxes.
Besides giving you a gayass hard cock, I'd like to know why you think Bonaparte was so great?
Tyler Howard
Who ever said that it was bad?
Counter-revolutionary propaganda and slander. Besides, they would have deserved it anyway for trying to enslave the French people again.
Leo Gomez
>think Bonaparte was so great?
He changed the world.
Christopher Jackson
i personally don't like to be a dirt poor peasant that can't vote while a dude sits on a throne living in luxury while not doing jack shit.
so no, it wasn't that bad.
Isaac Bell
You can't make an omelette without drowning a few nuns.
John Sanchez
>killing traitors chimping out when your country is at war with the entirety of Europe
>bad
Matthew Miller
*Blocks your path*
Nicholas Howard
Yes. The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a modern reproduction of the French Revolution and achieved roughly the same results: Nothing. Aside from killing a boat load of people.
It's so hypocritical how people share this double standards with this. They go on and on about how despicable the Chinese cultural revolution was, yet turn around and proclaim the French Revolution dindu nuffin.
Jack Jenkins
The only people who legit believe the monarchy was better are memers or unironic reactionaries.
Alexander Carter
YES
As bad as any Muslim invasion, worse.
Zachary Ross
>All these foreigners telling to a Genuine French how great it was when his family and his people were ruthlessly murdered by godless savages, and how great genocide is
mfw i just realized Veeky Forums is satire.
Asher Watson
And hundred of thousands of French agree with the Revolution, your point?
Kayden Collins
>Genuine French
So, a Muslim?
Alexander Jenkins
reminder
Benjamin Rogers
>hundred of thousands of French
Yes and ?
The opinion of uneducated people doesn't matter.
>35% White country who elected twice a nigger muslim president dare to call me a mudslim
Wew
Noah Bennett
>35% White
That's blatantly false and I'm not even from the U.S.
Samuel Johnson
Not really. The guillotine killings were typically reserved for criminals who were already in gaol for thievery, murder or even small crimes and they're incarceration really just came at the worst timing possible. The revolutionaries believed that these criminals could be easily coopted by counter revolutionaries to cause trouble for the regime and thus were executed.
However, that's not to say that it didn't get out of hand. The purges of the Girondins is a good example of the excesses of the revolution and killing for the sake of consolidating power. The War in the Vendée had to be brutal and swift to stop the insurrections whilst a full blown war against two major powers was under way and atrocities were committed by both sides.
In the end, the Ancien Regime had to go and Louis XVI and his first estate ilk had constantly undermined reforms and had actively tried to encourage invasion by Austria. Not a surprise he lost his head.
Lincoln Martin
This is one of the worst baits I've ever seen. I can't understand why are you still posting it. Nobody believes it, it's not even funny, nobody gets angry by it... What's the point of it?
William Baker
t. butthurt Veeky Forumstorian
Justin Adams
No.
Reminder that Robespierre and the Jacobins did nothing wrong, and are only despised for killing people who actually mattered in a revolutionary context.
Jonathan Collins
The revolution matches the tyranny that caused it.
France really was that shitty for most people. The nobility didn't get it any worse than they gave for centuries.
Luke Allen
please kys