A century and a half earlier, the English had be-headed Charles I, and started a Civil War. Before that, German peasants had revolted following Luther's Reformation. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Spanish Inquisition, the Albigensian Crusade, Persecution of the Knights Templar...punctuated by wars (holy and unholy) that lasted for decades, generations, centuries! All history written by the conqueror. The French Revolution may have been unique in having an ideology, but that was lost in the descent into absolute chaos. If we end up there, God save us!