Today's American Minute — égalité

Bastille Day, Reign of Terror, French Revolution's "liberté, égalité, fraternité" - American Minute with Bill Federer

Bastille Day égalité fraternité" French Revolution's "liberté Reign of Terror

Bastille Day, Reign of Terror, French Revolution's "liberté, égalité, fraternité" - American Minute with Bill Federer

Author Don Feder wrote in the article "Observations and Fulminations-The French Revolution and Jacobins in Our Streets (July 13, 2018): "The Reign of Terror wasn’t an episode of the French Revolution, it was the Revolution. In 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution,' historian Simon Schama writes, 'The terror … was not just an unfortunate side effect … it was the Revolution’s source of collective energy ... From the very beginning, violence was the motor of the revolution.'"

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