“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work. . . Every aristocrat was a traitor. . . For two hundred years now the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those who had helped to make these courts brilliant had to hide for their lives.”

Which event is referred to in this passage?

Responses

The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror

The Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath

The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

The Storming of the Bastille