Olivia's Journal: A Moral Conundrum

I have been lerning about the french revolution. There were the aristocrats and the peasants. The aristocrats were the ones that owned the land and took the money and payed taxes to the govorment. The peasants were the ones that had there money taken away and starved to death. The peasants got tired of being starved to death so one day they came and chopped off the aristocrats heads inklooding the king and queen's and their kids. The peasants took all there stuff and the english bought most of the things. You can see it in the Walace Collection and Buckingham Palace. The question is, who do you think was right? I think that they were both right because the aristocrats were just doing there job and living a happy life but they made the peasants starve. The peasants just wanted food but they didn't have to chop off there heads. They could of just did something else. What do you think? [Editor's note: the photo at left is a picture of a handbill advertising the sale of the contents of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon, a full seven months before her death. It's one of the things that we saw in the Wallace Collection, that prompted this post.]