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The Day of The Guillotine: Bastille, 14 July 1789

The Day of The Guillotine: Bastille, 14 July 1789

Arden, Jd

Paperback

Series: Days That Made History

French History

ISBN13: 9798264117862
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 6 2025
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
July heat, empty bread carts, and a city that had learned to believe rumors as fast as it feared troops. On 14 July 1789 Parisians set out for gunpowder and guns; they wound up improvising politics in public. The Day of the Guillotine follows that morning minute by minute-market noise, tavern talk, municipal bungling, and the raw, chaotic work of turning a theft into a story that could not be put back in its box.

JD Arden moves past legend to the practical mechanics of revolt: supply chains and shouting matches, weak policing and sudden leadership, pamphlets that turned a local raid into a national script. Sharp, human, and short on rhetoric, this book asks what makes a crowd seize an opportunity and how a single day comes to stand for a whole age. Read it for the scene; stay for the lesson: history often opens with a lock picked, not a decree issued.

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