Heads Will Roll

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Ancient Regime
3. Chapter Two - Debt and Decadence
4. Chapter Three - The Enlightenment Bomb
5. Chapter Four - Bread, Taxes, and Fire
6. Chapter Five - The Tennis Court Oath
7. Chapter Six - Storming the Bastille
8. Chapter Seven - The Declaration of the Rights of Man
9. Chapter Eight - March on Versailles
10. Chapter Nine - The Constitutional Monarchy
11. Chapter Ten - The Flight to Varennes
12. Chapter Eleven - The Rise of the Jacobins
13. Chapter Twelve - War on All Sides
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Execution of Louis XVI
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Reign of Terror
16. Chapter Fifteen - The Fall of the Girondins
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Death of Marat
18. Chapter Seventeen - Robespierre Ascends

Excerpt

PROLOGUE FRANCE DIDN’T FALL. It faceplanted. This wasn’t some slow, graceful decline of an old kingdom. This was a full-body collapse. The kind where the wheels fly off, the crowd’s screaming, and the guy in charge is still pretending everything’s fine. For most of the 1700s, France looked solid. Huge empire. Flashy king. Art, fashion, and influence. It was the center of the world, or at least it acted like it. But underneath all the lace and powdered wigs, the system was duct-taped together. The people at the top were rich, tax-free, and clueless. The people at the bottom were broke, hungry, and pissed. You don’t need a political science degree to guess where that leads. The numbers were...