French Revolution Analogies
The cluster consists of comments invoking the French Revolution, Napoleon, and related events as cautionary tales or sarcastic references to warn against revolution, inequality, or elite complacency, often highlighting its descent into terror, dictatorship, and war.
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Read a bit about the French revolution, related wars or what Napoleon has done for France before spouting such non-sense.
It worked in the French revolution!
I was thinking more Napolean than French Revolution.
Wouldn't that be France, between the French Revolution and Napoleon's regime?
It worked in the french revolution.
How about the French Revolution?
France during the Revolution, eh?
Well, it worked for pre-revolutionary France! What could possibly go wrong?
Thats what the French aristocracy said, and eventually they found their head on a pike.
Pretty sure it was a reference to Marie-Antoinette and the french revolution.