Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

On July 14 a mob stormed the Bastille prison in Paris ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

This was much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers, journalists and lawyers. For the first time the citizens took control and formed their own government.

The French Revolution would have an enormous impact ... To them democracy was not rule by the people but rule by a mob and an extremely dangerous idea. They would eventually find themselves ...