{"product_id":"the-french-revolution-and-what-went-wrong","title":"Stephen Clarke: The French Revolution and What Went Wrong [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLegend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of \u003ci\u003eLiberte, Egalite \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Fraternite\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, as Stephen Clarke argues in his informative and eye-opening account of the French Revolution, almost all of this is completely untrue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the Bastille was being stormed by out-of-control Parisians, the true democrats were at work in Versailles creating a British-style constitutional monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe founding of the Republic in 1792 unleashed a reign of terror that caused about 300,000 violent deaths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd people hailed today as revolutionary heroes were dangerous opportunists, whose espousal of \u003ci\u003eLiberte, Egalite\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFraternite\u003c\/i\u003e did not stop them massacring political opponents and guillotining women for demanding equal rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing back to original French sources, Stephen Clarke has uncovered the little-known and rarely told story of what was really happening in revolutionary France, as well as what went so tragically and bloodily wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarke, Stephen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44760147263778,"sku":"9781780895529","price":18.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/clarke-stephen-stephen-clarke-the-french-revolution-and-what-went-wrong-2018-paperback-9781780895529-1123995578.jpg?v=1738614546","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-french-revolution-and-what-went-wrong","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}