The Glorious French Revolution: or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done
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In the new dawn we were upright. We were tall. We were on two feet. No more horses. That's what we thought. We are not horses anymore.
August 1792. Twenty thousand people storm the palace of King Louis XVI. Six months later he is guillotined: France is a Republic.
July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their heads chopped off. Republican leader Robespierre gets guillotined as well. The Revolution is over.
January 2024. Members of the international elite assembled in Davos for the fin...






















