Revolution! by Brendan Powell Smith

Author:Brendan Powell Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

And so the Parisian mobs broke into the shops of gunsmiths, taking muskets, pistols, sabers, and knives. They first set upon the detested ring of customs posts that encircled the city and that drove up the prices of meat, wine, vegetables, and other commodities that entered the city and had been called “a monument of slavery and despotism.” The eighteen-mile wall and its fifty-five neoclassically designed tollhouses were the brainchild of the brilliant chemist Antoine Lavoisier, a member of the nobility who used funds from tax collection to drive his scientific research. By the morning of July 13, forty of the tollhouses were nothing more than rubble.

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