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* [[Eat the Rich]]: The [[Ur Example]] for this [[Stock Phrase]] came about during this time when Jean-Jacques Rousseau reportedly said, "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich," which would make an interesting corollary with Marie Antoinette's alleged "Let them eat cake" comments.
* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Robespierre and Desmoulins were friends in law school; they wound up as political enemies, resulting in Desmoulins's execution. Louis XVI was there to hear Robespierre's valedictorian speech. Also, Napoleon went to school and was friends with Augustin Robespierre, Maximilien's younger brother.
* [[Evil Cripple]]: Georges Couthon was condemned by Thermidorians [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106160432/http://www.saint-just.net/movies/napoleon/original/napoleon-7.html because of that].
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The instigators of the Reign of Terror actually ''called it that''.
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: Some experts believe that the famine that was one of the primary catalysts of the Revolution might not have been so bad, or even been averted completely had the French public had not been so resistant to earlier government efforts to introduce a crop from the New World know as a ''pomme de terre'' or in English, a potato.
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