Out of the three revolutions we learned about in class, I’d say the French Revolution was probably one of my favourites to learn about. Also I think I took in the most information about this topic compared to the other two Revolutions we learned about.

This weekend while I was out with my family, I asked them a question. What do you know about the French Revolution? I wanted to see how much people from Vancouver knew about the French Revolution. After hearing all of their answers, I realized how much people really do know about that.

All of the things they told me about the French Revolution I had never heard of before. For example, my aunt told me that people wore white wigs because they lost their hair from syphilis. Louis the 14 started loosing his hair form this and was the first to wear these wigs. They then became a fashion rage because the king wore them. French citizens got rid of the fashion during the French Revolution.

My uncle told me that Revolutionaries came up with their own calendar during the French Revolution. It was called the Republican calendar and was used for twelve years after the revolution. The two of them knew a little bit about the French Revolution, but not a lot.

Then there was people like my nanny. All she said was that she could sing all the songs from les miserable. My grandad on the other hand just said a joke. He said “the flag used to be blue and white until they started wrapping people’s heads in them”.

After asking everyone what they knew about the French Revolution, I realized that they really didn’t knew much at all. When they were in school they never really learned about the French Revolution and some people had just forgotten what had happened. Also all these facts may not be true.