The French Revolution was a moderately large event that happened in the late 1700's. Most aristocrats were sentenced to the guillotine. Many tried to escape but most didn't succeed. But before I go on, I must tell you what I'm going to talk about. I'm going to talk about the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, and Louis XVI.
             The events of the French Revolution were definitely not pretty. Almost nothing could have been worse than the bloodshed, the guillotine, most everything! Many people were taken captive. At the jail doors the guards asked, "Do you have any bells? (money)" If the answer was yes, then a jug of water and a basin was handed out. If the answer was no, the guards would say, "Well, so much the worse for you, but you don't get anything with nothing." But it got much worse than that!
             From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1970s, the French Revolution was most commonly described as the result of the growing economic and social importance of the bourgeoisie, or middle class. The bourgeoisie, it was believed, overthrew the Old Regime because that regime had given power and privilege to other classes-the nobility and the clergy-who prevented the bourgeoisie from advancing socially and politically. Economic recession in the 1770s may have frustrated some bourgeois in their rise to power and wealth, and rising bread prices just before the Revolution certainly increased discontent among workers and peasants. Yet it is now commonly believed that the revolutionary process started with a crisis in the French state.
             By 1789 many French people had become critical of the monarchy, even though it had been largely successful in militarily defending France and in quelling domestic religious and political violence. They resented the rising and unequal taxes, the persecution of religious minorities, and government interference in their private lives. These resentments, coupled with...