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@chiamaluca

syphilis and mercury face powder?

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@benroyce

and a LOT of parfume !

@chiamaluca

stinky times

blessed be modern sanitation and plumbing

@chiamaluca

you're talking to an american

i won't let you educate me!

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@benroyce

sorry....
...
I'll try to avoid it.

@chiamaluca

no, no, no

preach, educate the world

we need you

what did marat get wrong?

why did robespierre get deranged?

what did danton get right?

etc., etc.

preach!

@benroyce

They are all important questions
And we could discuss its implications
for days
but to make it short
envy, the needs to bring back order, and the arrival of a populist figure who backed by the army removed 'the breath' from the revolutionary anarchy,

@chiamaluca @benroyce I find that among my American countrymen, there's a deep lack of understanding of the French Revolution that is disquieting as people on this side of the pond begin considering their options for their own deeply-divided national and class interests.

We teach it as "France had a revolution, and then they had liberty." And that is a mistake. It's really important to confront that belief with "The king was executed... And then what happened?"

There's a reason the UK is still a monarchy, and it's not because they never tried anything else. And there's a reason America isn't a monarchy, and it isn't because we were smarter, braver, or more egalitarian than the French or the British.