Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
Actually, the Terror barely scratched the aristocracy in comparative terms. It was much more about killing other revolutionaries and assorted undesirable peasant types. Far more of the idealists who started the whole thing off lost their heads than nobles. Rather typical of bloody revolutions, where the real enemy is the fellow who is like oneself, but not quite so pure.
I stand corrected, but I submit that the aristocracy suffred more (and more unfairly) than during a mere dynastic squablle. Russia was even worse.