Guillotine: Did you mean...?

A caricature of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, aka Philippe Égalité, as the King of Spades, a mockery of his desires to become king. Illustration by an unknown author from Hector Fleischmann's La guillotine en 1793, 1908.

In 1789 CE, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking about the French Revolution. Across the world, people were rising up to throw off monarchies, and Louis...

In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the...