Heads Will Roll
The French Revolution explodes from bread riots to guillotines as ordinary people storm Versailles and tear down a thousand-year monarchy.
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Chapters
22 total- 01Prologue
- 02Chapter One - The Ancient Regime
- 03Chapter Two - Debt and Decadence
- 04Chapter Three - The Enlightenment Bomb
- 05Chapter Four - Bread, Taxes, and Fire
- 06Chapter Five - The Tennis Court Oath
- 07Chapter Six - Storming the Bastille
- 08Chapter Seven - The Declaration of the Rights of Man
- 09Chapter Eight - March on Versailles
- 10Chapter Nine - The Constitutional Monarchy
- 11Chapter Ten - The Flight to Varennes
- 12Chapter Eleven - The Rise of the Jacobins
- 13Chapter Twelve - War on All Sides
- 14Chapter Thirteen - The Execution of Louis XVI
- 15Chapter Fourteen - The Reign of Terror
- 16Chapter Fifteen - The Fall of the Girondins
- 17Chapter Sixteen - The Death of Marat
- 18Chapter Seventeen - Robespierre Ascends
Edition notes and short pages
Heads Will Roll
Heads Will Roll
The Story of the French Revolution
by James Johnson
Dedication
For the ones who looked up at the palace and wondered how much it cost to starve under it.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THANK YOU TO everyone who helped sharpen this blade.
To the readers, the doubters, the thinkers, and the ones who kept asking what really happened.
And to the crowd in the street: your story still matters.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ IS THE author of hundreds of books across history, politics, systems, philosophy, and the real forces that shape human life. He writes with clarity, weight, and a rhythm you can actually read, cutting through myths, textbooks, and recycled nonsense to tell the story like it really happened.
This book is part of a much larger body of work built to educate, disrupt, and endure.
COPYRIGHT
© 2025 JAMES JOHNSON All rights reserved.
This is a work of historical nonfiction. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, clarity, and readability. Where exact quotations or phrasing were unavailable, certain speeches, documents, or exchanges may be paraphrased for flow, without altering intent or meaning.
All interpretations are the author’s own. You are encouraged to check the receipts.
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