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		nandemo on Sept 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Look out for No. 1 That's curious, I'd have thought that the Reign of Terror would be a good example in support of what lionhearted is saying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

0x12 on Sept 18, 2011 [–]

As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, the period of a revolution itself is extremely messy and it could go either way. But I think that it is impossible to argue that France was eventually worse off because of the revolution.

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