Yes. Which is why someone who had an understanding of the role of private property and with hopes that humankind would one day emerge to a better state of being, would not have put their hopes in any of the parties urging bloodshed.
Such an eye-witness at the time (and De Sade comes closest) would, like Sade, have advised a British-style bicameral constitutional monarchy, sparing most of those lives lost (most of whom were the poor) during the Jacobinist carnage.
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