{"id":1133679,"date":"2023-07-14T04:45:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T04:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=90686"},"modified":"2023-07-14T04:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T04:45:50","slug":"the-french-revolution-executed-royals-and-nobles-yes-but-most-people-killed-were-commoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/14\/the-french-revolution-executed-royals-and-nobles-yes-but-most-people-killed-were-commoners\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Revolution executed royals and nobles, yes \u2013 but most people killed were\u00a0commoners"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANALYSIS:<\/strong> By Claire Rioult<\/a>, Monash University<\/a> and Romain Fathi<\/a>, Flinders University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine.<\/p>\n

Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons, many have been left with the impression the revolution was chiefly about chopping off the heads of kings, queens, dukes and other cashed-up aristocrats.<\/p>\n

But today what\u2019s known in English as Bastille Day and in French as Quatorze Juillet<\/em> — a date commemorating events of July 14 in 1789 that came to symbolise the French Revolution — it is worth correcting this common misconception.<\/p>\n