Just heard something interesting about the French Revolution

[Me.]

7. Actually

The aristocracy had quite a bit to do with fomenting the revolution. The Duc d'Orleans, for example, who was the king's cousin and later became known as Phillipe Egalite wanted the throne for himself and his family. It was he who had scurrilous pamphlets/propaganda against the king, but mainly the queen, printed daily and distributed throughput Paris. When the supposed fishwives stormed the palace, Simon Scharma, in his excellent book on the revolution, writes that they were mainly men who were supplied with info on how to get in. Also, it was the Duc who cast the deciding vote as to whether or nor Louis should be beheaded. For his efforts, he himself was later beheaded when it became evident that he had no control over the monsters he helped create.