Reflecting on the French Revolution a century earlier, thinkers such as Gustave Le Bon helped promote the idea that a crowd is always on the verge of becoming a mob.
Often a symbol and reflection of French political power, the cathedral was vandalized through the French Revolution while Napoleon Bonaparte used it to reinstate monarchic rule with his coronation as Emperor.
A decade later, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, conservative authors claimed the Illuminati had survived their banishment and orchestrated the overthrow of the monarchy.
The Bastille's fall gave momentum to the rest of the French Revolution, leading to the execution of the royal family and, eventually, the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Now, before we dive into the French Revolution of onions, let's recap the science behind the onion's uncanny ability to bring tears to even the toughest eyes.
While the French Revolution succeeded in conquering this territory into France, Napoleon came around and expanded France's borders to well be gone to the natural borders of the Pyrenees, the Rhine, and the Alps.
A cathedral rector, Patrick Chauvet, said this year marks the " first time since the French Revolution that there will be no midnight Mass" at Notre Dame.
The second turning-point was the French revolution, with which he sympathised, and Napoleon's invasion of Spain and the long Peninsular war that followed.