“After Me, the Deluge” – King Louis XV (r. 1715 - 1774)
The American and French Revolutions were contemporary. And they both addressed similar complaints: citizens fed up and beyond by their overbearing, over-taxing, power-loving government officials and associate plutocrat-monopolists in business and finance.
In both lands, the revolutionary zeal led to a moment when a ‘shot was heard around the world.’
The two revolutions differed in that, in the American case, the elite
