The French Revolution
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On July 14, 1789, an angry mob of French commoners stormed the
Bastille in Paris. These low-class citizens had only one thing on their
minds as they initiated a nation at war, and that was revenge - revenge on
the King and the government, on the nobles and the wealthy. Dickens
stunningly depicted ....
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.... before it trickled away. The stain
of the spilled wine left an ever-present reminder that the waste of the
elite was life's blood to the peasants.
Dickens imaged the aristocrat as if he were a constant masquerade,
burying all internal traits with external garnishments. In his description
of the Monseigneur's "fancy ball," he first presents this notion. The
Marquis St. Evremonde proved to be one of those who concealed any inner
affections, when he ran down the son of Gaspard. His arrogan ....
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