#never forget that the guy that got the French king decapited was broke and only got his education because of financial aids

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

The French Revolution wasn't started by "bored rich kid", tagging this post as such is false. It's a misinformation that has been spread for years.

The French Revolution started on the 23rd April of 1789, with the Réveillon affair. Réveillon was a rich man who told his workers their pay were going to be lowered because he wasn't making enough money. The people got very mad, because life was hard, and they attack his house, screaming "kill the rich". Soldiers were sent to protect Réveillon and his family. This is the second bloodiest day of the Revolution, because of how many folk the army killed. Even tho the people who attacked Réveillon weren't all his workers, they were likely all working class people, not rich at all.

The 14th of July, aka Bastille Day, is when the population of Paris took the Bastille. And when I say "the population of Paris", I mean it was ALL THE PARISIANS except for the disabled and anyone too young or too old. The majority of that population wasn't rich, they were poor. And they were also screaming "kill the rich".

Robespierre, the ONE representative to call out that the king had committed treason and not been kidnapped (which is true, btw, the other representatives were coward), the guy that asked for him to be judged for high treason, the guy that asked the king to lose his power, HE WAS BROKE AF. Like, only became a lawyer because the monastery he studied at growing up financially supported him. Like, he didn't even have his own place, he lived with his aunt and siblings back home and in Paris, he lived with a family that refused to have him pay rent (so he sent his money to his sister), and he was in his 30s.

Finally, who dragged the royal family, especially Marie-Antoinette, out of Versailles? PARISIANS WOMEN who were tired of seeing their children starve. They were not rich at all, they were women who worked everyday for barely nothing to feed their family, and who had enough of this powerful woman using her power to abuse them and kill their husband and sons (Marie-Antoinette started the war against Austria with Louis XVI because they wanted them to kill French folks to "put them back into their place")

The French Revolution wasn't started by bored rich people. And the US didn't do a revolution, but an independence war, it's different.