L’Abolition des privilèges

It's a state in chronic deficit, where the wealthiest escape taxation. A regime on its last legs. A people on edge, clamoring for justice and seeing nothing coming. A rich but stalled country, prey to the whims of a deregulated climaté. Such is France in the summer of 1789. Until one night, in Versailles, everything turned upside down. It was the Night of August 4.