The Bastille was stormed in summer of 1789 and perhaps
that event was the first signal that the days of the
French Monarchy and aristocratic rule were numbered.
The French King had supported the revolutionaries in America
with finance and arms.
The French were taking quiet satisfaction in seeing those
upstart colonists putting the British nose out of joint.
Perhaps the French did nt realise that those revolutionary ideas
would soon cross the Atlantic and threaten their own society.
That the very same King who had given aid and comfort to the rebels would one day climb the scaffold to face the guillotine and the humiliation of a public execution.
(Perhaps the British took quiet satisfaction at seeing that ? )
that event was the first signal that the days of the
French Monarchy and aristocratic rule were numbered.
The French King had supported the revolutionaries in America
with finance and arms.
The French were taking quiet satisfaction in seeing those
upstart colonists putting the British nose out of joint.
Perhaps the French did nt realise that those revolutionary ideas
would soon cross the Atlantic and threaten their own society.
That the very same King who had given aid and comfort to the rebels would one day climb the scaffold to face the guillotine and the humiliation of a public execution.
(Perhaps the British took quiet satisfaction at seeing that ? )
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