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Quote: "It must burn"

Question: Why did the French Revolutionaries burn down everything in their path?

Comment: They hate anything to do with the royalty and the rich. They congregate and form a mob and enter the mob mentality, which compels them to kill and destroy anything in their path. They also want to destroy all traces of the corrupt monarchy that made them work and starve while they lived lavishly in their huge estates, like the chateau that belonged to Monseigneur of the Marquis. When they killed him, they wanted to rid all traces of him fron their town, and when some people wanted to save the mansion, the civilans watching the blaze said, "It must burn."