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With the king eliminated, the conspiracy obsession would focus more than ever before on potential enemies among the patriots themselves. Indeed, there was a certain truth in Mercier's observation: "It was because they had cut off the head of Louis XVI that they were emboldened to cut off those of their colleagues."
— Nov 24, 2018 05:33AM
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For most of the deputies and for the people of Paris, there could be no doubt that the murder (of Marat by Charlotte Corday) was directly ordered by the Girondins who had escaped to Normandy. It appeared inconceivable to the male leadership that a woman could plan and perform such an act on her own.
— Nov 29, 2018 04:06AM
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"The majority (of the nobility) had imbibed an ideology centered on 'race' and 'blood' and the undoubting assumption that they were biologically superior members of society-a persuasion that ran directly counter to the basic assumptions of the Enlightenment."
Why has this idea regained currency some two hundred years later????
— Oct 03, 2018 04:44AM
Why has this idea regained currency some two hundred years later????
