when people are nostalgic about the French revelation and you wonder? Did they not go through the same classes in history? Most of those saying yeah.. would be stood up and shoot..
no. not really the majority of the rich fled and lived elsewhere for a time. Ironically, relatively little. See, a good deal of the nobility got out of France before things got really bad. The majority of nobles who stayed were of the liberal nobility. Now, practically all of these nobles were arrested following the Law of Suspects, which was the beginning of the Terror. However, not all of these were executed as the Terror was run according to pre-industrial technology. Hilariously, in a dark sort of way, of the 35,000–45,000 people killed in the Terror, 85% were of the Third Estate, according to Georges Lefebvre. This is still a disproportionately high amount of nobles, but it doesn’t change the fact that the Terror was ultimately less a class genocide and more a general suppression of dissent or as Robespierre termed it a purification of French virtue.
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Clinton Siegle
Subsequently, question is, did any nobility survive the French Revolution? The Reign of Terror resulted in an estimated 40,000 executions, primarily landed nobility, courtiers and clergy. Being a member of the lesser nobility, the revolution never got around to executing him, so he survived. After 1794 the executions stopped, but the persecution continued.
Secondly, how many guillotines were used in the French Revolution?
We normally associate the guillotine with the severe brutality of the French Revolution. 16,549 men and women were executed by the guillotine.
How many priests were killed in the French Revolution?
During a two-year period known as the Reign of Terror, the episodes of anti-clericalism grew more violent than any in modern European history. The new revolutionary authorities suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30,000 priests and killed hundreds more.
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Clinton Siegle
Between 1789 and 1802, there were about 1 400 000 killed (Sorokin, Pitirim. The Sociology of Revolution. 1967). That number includes those killed during the revolution itself (1789-1799) and the Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802).
The death toll during the Reign of Terror is somewhat less accurate. 17 000 people were officially executed but according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10 000 people died in prison or without trial. The Incidence of the Terror during the French Revolution by Donald Greer also points to 25 000 summary executions across France.
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Clinton Siegle
so 48,000 nobles to 1.4 million in total.. the odds are I won't survive. Not because I am bad. But because I am trying get a snickers bar or a sandwich.