Thank you American educational system for completely gaslighting national and international history as a learning subject. Yes, like in China's cultural revolution when you have brutal sickos at the top, anyone can be singled out by the contemporary masses. So too in the French revolution, anyone could be singled out for punishment or death, anyone. Below is a blurb from a Google search regarding scientists executed in the French Revolution: (I added a wiki link in case you are wondering who was A.L.)

Antoine Lavoisier was guillotined during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror on May 8, 1794. Under the monarchy, Lavoisier had a share in the General Farm, an enterprise that collected taxes for the government. He was executed with his father-in-law and 26 other General Farm members.

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Forget the Hollywood cake stories, this is what violent revolution gets any society. Execution by idiots.