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Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In fact, nearly all of this is completely untrue. Going back to original French sources, Stephen Clarke uncovers the little-known and rarely told story of what really happened in revolutionary France, as well as what went so tragically and bloodily wrong.