A history lesson

I've just finished reading a substantial (but very well-written) biography of Marie Antoinette. The woman was nothing more than a product of her background and her times, as are we all. Yes she was treated shamefully at the end, but I don't blame the people who rose up against what she stood for. I don't like the idea of violent revolution one bit, what with all the gas-bags spouting ideology for ever after, and for all the intolerance and cruelty which inevitably follow in its wake. However I fully understand why revolutions occur, living in the country and time that I do.