The French Revolution was a crucial event in Western History, and possibly the single most crucial influence on British intellectual, philosophical, and political life in the nineteenth century. It presented itself as a triumph in its early stages but later proved to be a revolution of senseless revenge. With a mob composed of mainly animals, like Madame Defarge, the French Revolution is one of the most barbaric periods recorded in history. The French Revolution began in 1789 when the States General met May 5. June the seventeenth the National Assembly was declared. Then a gang of angry, mistreated peasants stormed...
Reason took its place. Battle followed battle; the Revolution raged on devouring everyone in its path. Things finally came to a halt when Napoleon Buoneparte became Emperor on May of 1804.

The French Revolution was possibly the most crucial event in recorded history. It was a time that was filled with hate, murder, despair, tyranny, and lies. We can look back to these events and learn how selfishness and prejudice can ruin a society. At least today, we do not have to worry about hearing the words "Let him be, he will be judged in Paris...and condemned a traitor".