French Revolution 1789-1794 not only changed France forever, ending the Old Order, but truly became a phenomenon on a planetary scale. It is not for nothing that in our country, with the light hand of the leader of the world proletariat V.I. Lenin, she was called “Great”. However, in the eyes of the French, it still retains an aura of holiness and romance, having laid the foundation for the modern history and political culture of France. This is a national myth and a patented national brand - and even a national “game”, since the revolution became the starting point for subsequent upheavals in a country that conservative Europe for decades perceived as the main source of “revolutionary infection”... However, we must not forget that every revolution requires sacrifices and receives them without fail. And from the image of a kind mother who wants everyone to live in “freedom, equality and fraternity”, she quickly moves to the image of a formidable mother who cruelly punishes her children - “Madame Guillotine”...