The French Revolution began when the government tried to repudiate its debts once too often. It wasn't the peasants or the urban poor who were holding the bonds

The French Revolution began when the government tried to repudiate its debts once too often. It wasn't the peasants or the urban poor who were holding the bonds. Once the revolution really got going, many things changed. But an Austrian historian remarked that men are very attached to their goods, and that the Jacobins fell more because of their assignats than because of the guillotine.