What I think is most exciting about the French Revolution is that it's the story of what happens when you take a bunch of "regular" people in their 20's and 30's - brilliant, eccentric, more or less messed up people but not unlike us and our friends - and put them in charge of running a country in crisis, where everything they say and do has enormous consequences.

I'm sorry - I don't have anything constructive to add to the dialogue here at the moment, but I just wanted to say that for some reason that sounded like the plot of a new reality TV show for a minute there. *dies* XD At this rate, it can't be far off. So You Think You Can Govern: Somalia.