Matthew’s Reviews > A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution > Status Update

Brah - this country is making me fucking crazy because I’m sitting here reading how the cook and the baker stabbed and decapitated Delaunay after storming the Bastille and laughing my fucking ass off…

"As the elections proceeded, social unrest continued to rock the country. […]wallpaper manufacturer Jean-Baptiste Reveillon, had said that workers’ wages were too high. […] A large crowd attacked his house in the Saint-Antoine, on the eastern side of the city. “They carried away everything they found, burned the papers, the wallpaper designs and even banknotes, devastated the gardens, cut down the trees"

“the princes, the courtiers, the principal ministers, those who control the finances, possess all the riches of the nation,” he continued, “while the rest of the citizens have only the necessities of life, and the great majority of people groan in poverty.” - Jaucourt