You're right. They weren't, however, very good monarchs. They deserved to be removed from power, but the French Revolution would've done well to pattern itself after our Revolution.
Okay. I'm willing to hear an argument they weren't the totalitarian tyrants they've been portrayed as. Do you have a resource to point me in the right direction? I tried a search, but I'm not finding anything contradictory to the narrative I've been led to believe, thus far.
That's how Robespierre and his ilk dispatched with those two. They traded a handful of dictators for a council of dictators. Didn't go well.
You're right. They weren't, however, very good monarchs. They deserved to be removed from power, but the French Revolution would've done well to pattern itself after our Revolution.
Okay. I'm willing to hear an argument they weren't the totalitarian tyrants they've been portrayed as. Do you have a resource to point me in the right direction? I tried a search, but I'm not finding anything contradictory to the narrative I've been led to believe, thus far.