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On July 14, 1789, an angry mob of French commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris. These low-class citizens had only one thing on their minds as they initiated a nation at war, and that was revenge - revenge on the King and the government, on the nobles and the we ....

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.... wine left an ever-present reminder that the waste of the elite was life's blood to the peasants. Dickens imaged the aristocrat as if he were a constant masquerade, burying all internal traits with external garnishments. In his description of the Monseigneur's "fancy ball," he first presents this notion. The Marquis St. Evremonde proved to be one of those who concealed any inner affections, when he ran down the son of Gaspard. His arrogance toward the lower class was especially apparent in this episode, and seemed to represent the attitude of all of the upper class toward the peasants. The time of the Revolution was a time of true affluence an ....