Harry Potter: Dawn's Light
Chapter 868

Chaos Dragon

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After the Thermidorian Reaction, from the perspective of the ruling class, the Thermidorians who took power represented the interests of the big bourgeoisie. Power had not changed hands, nor had it fallen into the hands of feudal forces or the people. Thus, the French Revolution ended in victory for the bourgeoisie.

Judging by the measures adopted after the coup, they released large numbers of suspects, abolished the general price-control decree, restored capitalist economic freedom, and so on.

The Jacobins' price controls were revoked, and food prices continued to soar according to supply and demand. The Bird Month Uprising and the Flower Month Uprising were hunger riots, opposing rising prices and bourgeois rule. Their struggle was not directed at feudal forces, but at the big bourgeoisie. The seemingly righteous bourgeoisie and the feudal lords were actually cut from the same cloth. The new government had solved nothing.

The Jacobin regime was not merely a "provisional government" resisting foreign enemies. The Thermidorians' retrograde actions after the Thermidorian Reaction ultimately led to the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty.

Even if France had adopted China's Ever-Normal Granary System like America, given their extravagance and belligerence, the system would still have collapsed.

Pomona returned to her residence on St Helena. Everything here was brand-new, and she could arrange it however she pleased. An ordinary woman ought to have been enthusiastic about such things.

But she was more interested in other matters.

Was the assassination attempt Arthur Weasley encountered truly an assassination attempt, or a staged "self-inspection"?

The place where he was attacked was not far from Slytherin's protected zone. Standing by and doing nothing while someone died would certainly earn them public scorn, yet it also cleared them of accusations of involvement in the assassination. They all had alibis.

If Saint-Just had not been busy

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