The guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work... Every aristocrat was a traitor... For two hundred years now the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those who had helped to make these courts brilliant
had to hide for their lives.
1. Which event is this passage referring to?
O a) French Revolution
BGlorious Revolution
O c) Unification of Italy
d) Scientific Revolution