Hanging with History
The French Revolution and Britain
The French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chaos, mob rule and savage cruelty began to turn people away from the Revolution.
Church and King societies swept across Britain, and Church and King riots as well. Thomas Paine was burned in effigy thousands of times across England.
Reflections on the Revolution in France, was a key text of the time laying out arguments against radicalism, arguing that reform had to happen within national idioms.
The French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chaos, mob rule and savage cruelty began to turn people away from the Revolution.
Church and King societies swept across Britain, and Church and King riots as well. Thomas Paine was burned in effigy thousands of times across England.
Reflections on the Revolution in France, was a key text of the time laying out arguments against radicalism, arguing that reform had to happen within national idioms.