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The Vendéens just wanted their King and their churches. They got a genocide as an answer. Yeah, or people getting canonized. I am also talking about myths like the ones of the Bastille. The Bastille wasn’t important anymore by that time, it was even losing it’s use as a prison to keep...

The Revolution was a time of national myths for France, lot of stuff about the time period is forgotten or glanced over nowadays, especially in France itself, the genocide of Vendée being one of those things, the fact that the Bastille wasn’t nearly as Glorious as later told is another one of...