The War in The Vendée - Genocide In The Name Of Enlightenment

The War in the Vendée (1793; French: Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the Loire River in western France. During the gruesome conflict hundreds of thousands of people died, many more than by the Guillotine. Some historians call it a genocide, which happened in the name of an ideology that proclaimed liberty and equality. The great author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn places the root of so many terrors to come in the 20th century at the royalist uprising:
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/re...

Books mentioned during this video:
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy free on Gutenberg.org:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60

A Tale of two Cities by Dickens on Gutenberg.org:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98

The biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joseph Fouché mentioned were written by Austrian author Stefan Zweig and can be found on Amazon (and other places), both are highly recommended.