How Liberals Live

You know aristocracy and nobility are the same thing, right? And that peasants were—by definition—landowners? The French Revolution actually happened because the royal reforms acknowledged and enfranchised clergy, aristocrats, AND PEASANTS; it was the urban professional class they ignored, because the political theory still saw the economy as primarily a matter of land, when it was already becoming intellectual and industrial capital. Hence why the entire leadership of the French Revolution was urban professionals—Danton was a lawyer, St. Just a doctor—and most of the actual peasants were the source of the monarchist uprisings the Revolutionary government periodically put down.