Peasant revolts did it better. Razed the local manors, killed or drove off the local lords, and seized and burned records of debts. All the old ways of rule were destroyed forcing a change in government.
And then the Paris peasants sent troops to kill the rural French peasants who liked their poorer local lords.
150,000-200,000 French peasants were killed by the revolutionaries. A whole bunch were tied to barges and drowned, then they'd pull up the barge put new people on and sink it again, and again, and again.
A lot more French poor were killed by the revolutionaries than rich. The French revolution needed to happen, but oh boy did the kill a lot of poor French people.
And then the counter revolution happened and even more French poor died because Napoleon wanted to be Emperor.
There's a lot of lessons to learn from the French Revolution. They're the same lessons to learn from the Russian Revolution. And all of them boil down to, "Don't make a government worse than the one you overthrew."
The lessons from the next big revolution will be, "Don't listen to asshats who learned history from YouTube and TikTok."
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