Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing ... the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

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The machine was designed at the request of the French king Louis XIV—the monarch who commissioned ... was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution). Through more than 120 artifacts ...