Napoleon - Age of the Lion - Vol. 4 Ch. 29

[MangaDex]

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

I understand fuck loads of innocent bystanders getting wrecked by the guillotine as well ,why though? Just for entertainment? Or a lame attempt to placate the people by showing these "see? we're cleaning up the country!" daily guillotine circus?

 

[Tangtay]

I understand fuck loads of innocent bystanders getting wrecked by the guillotine as well ,why though? Just for entertainment? Or a lame attempt to placate the people by showing these "see? we're cleaning up the country!" daily guillotine circus?

Because they're Fr-nch, that's why.

 

[SMAXZO]

I understand fuck loads of innocent bystanders getting wrecked by the guillotine as well ,why though? Just for entertainment? Or a lame attempt to placate the people by showing these "see? we're cleaning up the country!" daily guillotine circus?

Basically it's for scapegoating people so the urban poor doesn't notice that nothing got better under the Revolution. In fact, the poor gets reamed worse than they were under the Monarchists. Basically think this is the proto Soviet purges.

 

[proulout]

I understand fuck loads of innocent bystanders getting wrecked by the guillotine as well ,why though? Just for entertainment? Or a lame attempt to placate the people by showing these "see? we're cleaning up the country!" daily guillotine circus?

It was a war on ideas, a dead innocent was a better outcome than a living supporter of royalty. It was quite effective and inefective at the same time, as plenty of innocent people were denounced for financiary profit, but as a result none of the citizens would dare to be on the king's side, at least in Paris, lest they had a death wish.
Their very neighbor could denounce them to the officials for any reason, even a silly one, and if they were sent to the revolutionarry tribunal, death was almost always the outcome. Fouquier, the judge in this chapter, is estimated to have sent at least 2000 people to the guillotine from march 1793 until march 1795.
They were still some uprising in some areas, like in the region of Vendée, but they just sent the revolutionnary army to deal with them and kill everyone (25% of the inhabitants of the total population of this place died until they finished to quash it). One of the local revolutionnary governors, Carrier, is quite knonw for mass killing people and prisonners by drowning them into the river in the middle of the night.

 

[Fugutron]

I understand fuck loads of innocent bystanders getting wrecked by the guillotine as well ,why though? Just for entertainment? Or a lame attempt to placate the people by showing these "see? we're cleaning up the country!" daily guillotine circus?

settling of vendettas and debts, If I don't like you, I'll fabricate a crime against you