Why She Killed 1 Man to Save 100,000

Does the death of one man outweigh the lives of one hundred thousand? Find out in today's epic historical video about the bloody French Revolution.

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[gababel]

Psychologically speaking, National was born from the hatred towards the king and other selfish aristocrats. At first, the French Revolution seems to be the way to change France, but when someone like Marat and Robespierre is controlled by anger and pride, they are no better than their King.

Revolution follows time and generation. When time change, people needs to change. Action must be taken to change something. Charlotte Corday's action is also considered a revolutionary.

[SerErryk]

People don't realize most revolutions fail spectacularly.

Easy to agree on problems, nearly impossible to agree on solutions.

[barrymccaulkiner]

She got caught. That's why she was never accepted into the Brotherhood of Assassins.

[ibrahimalhayyi]

"You got executed, you got executed, everyone got executed" - Marat, probably -

[Thecommander]

Marat was one of the worst monsters in French history. The fact that him and Robespierre are considered minor heroes today is horrific.

[viridian]

i love this guys voice, its just so soothing

[rennor]

An interesting thing about Marat is that his horrible skin condition is considered to have been attributed to celiac disease, which is when small intestine is unable to properly digest products which contain gluten causing the immune system to damage the skin tissue in an attempt to extract the nutrients.
This meant that his condition would go away if he stopped eating bread, which the severe lack of at the time sparked the revolution among the working classes to begin with.

[chaotixninja]

Marat: "Yippie kai ye, mother-" *gets stabbed*

[quaktoons]

The French revolution was a blood bath, and yes it was a roller-coaster, despite what the French say.

[theconqueringram]

The French Revolution was a mess of affairs, but at least Charlotte Corday stood up for what was right.

[WorldwideBushcraftSurvival]

Back in the day, while in college, I took a class over the French Revolution. Where were you then? This brief synopsis touched on a lot of points. Good job.

[silentstarproductions]

Oversimplified fans: “I am four parallel universes ahead of you.”

[noellomax]

I'm not gonna lie this would make a really good modern musical

[bunnx]

And kids, this is what we call killing one bird with 100, 000 stones :)!

Edit: this was supposed to make no sense, they killed one person so I put killing *one* bird

[ginger]

Love watching this when I'm supposed to be sleeping

[petrvanerka]

Anyone else saw the OverSimplified video about the French revolution and figured out that they were talking about Charlotte Corday before they even said her name?

[lix]

Marad: "Corday is an dangerous enemy of the revelution!"
Corday: "No u, knife goes

[cyberlime]

As soon as I heard the words “French Revolution” I new it was the death of bathtub man

[mspicer]

I'm a great-many-times-nephew of Charlotte Corday... my mother found her while researching my dad's side of the family.

[lucianonunez-grinder]

this story should totally be made into a movie