Yes. Stupid pear-headed king and his lack of taste. D:
Doubtless. It would probably be something disturbing though. It's definitely upsetting that Lavoisier was executed--that was really quite unnecessary, to say the least--but it really annoys me what some of the least honest authors of counterrevolutionary vulgarizations would have people believe about it: namely, that he was executed because he was a scientist, not because he was a tax farmer. (This falsification also, unsurprisingly, makes Robespierre entirely responsable and has him say something along the lines of "the Republic needs no scientists".) I really have seen this "explanation" before, sadly.
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Date: Monday, 7 September 2009 17:53 (UTC)Doubtless. It would probably be something disturbing though. It's definitely upsetting that Lavoisier was executed--that was really quite unnecessary, to say the least--but it really annoys me what some of the least honest authors of counterrevolutionary vulgarizations would have people believe about it: namely, that he was executed because he was a scientist, not because he was a tax farmer. (This falsification also, unsurprisingly, makes Robespierre entirely responsable and has him say something along the lines of "the Republic needs no scientists".) I really have seen this "explanation" before, sadly.
No, I wouldn't imagine that they would. XDD