the storming of the Bastille and some outsiders has varied greatly. For example, the account of M. Keversan, a patriot lawyer, who participated in the storming of the Bastille, is quite different than the account of Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, a historical

novel, written seventy years after the Bastille had been stormed. While M. Keversan's account seemed to glorify the means of the people, that of Dickens more looked down upon it and made the people involved seem cold and cruel. Although neither is completely unbiased, through the accounts regarding July 14, 1789, one can see the different viewpoints concerning the means and methods of the revolutionaries in France.

M. Keversan was a patriot lawyer, working for the cause of the revolution. Therefore, it is not difficult to believe that in his account of the storming of the Bastille, the actions of the people would seem to be almost glorified in some ways, as he and many

the same accuracy by taking away the glorification of Keversan. Dickens continues throughout the excerpt by saying, "a roar that sounded as if all the breath in France had been shaped into the detested word.......everywhere was tumult, exultation, deafening and

creature there held life as of no account and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it." He continues by speaking of a woman, Madame, by saying that her, "resolute right hand was occupied with an axe in place of the usual softer implements, and in her

maniacal bewilderment, astounding noise, yet furious dumb show." He continues to make the people involved in the battle appear bloodthirsty and nothing else, especially with a certain character, Jacques Three, by saying, "evidently disappointed by the dialogue taking a turn that did not seem to promise bloodshed"; he continues by speaking of a woman in the same manner: "she put her foot upon his neck, and with her cruel knife-long ready-hewed off his head". He then speaks of the people in general, with the "horrible idea......blood of tyranny and domination by the iron hand....trodden on the body to steady it for mutilation....faces hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them.....seven gory heads on pikes...headlong, mad and dangerous". Through these quotes and more, D

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