"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

The Illuminati have managed to present as negative a picture of Louis
XVI and his France as possible to the post-revolutionary world. It was not
the extravagance and wasteful spending of the court that caused the
enormous state deficit, but rather France's support of the American Revo-
lution. The costs of the war against England became astronomical. Louis
XVI was the first head of state of the Old World to recognise this new
republic. Gustavus III was the second.
Louis XVI had reformed the judicial system, abolished torture in 1788,
humanised the prisons and developed the health service. He paved the way
for the fall of the monarchy through constant, small concessions to the
freemasons and the Illuminati. The revolution was not organised in a desti-
tute country, but in a flourishing nation. France's exports had multiplied
ten times during the century. Industry and agriculture had made great ad-
vances. The French network of more than 40 000 kilometres of stone-
paved roads was admired by an amazed world. (Rene Sedillot, "Le cout de
la Revolution francaise" / "The Cost of the French Revolution", Paris,
1986.)
A presage of the catastrophe to come occurred almost exactly a year
earlier, on the morning of the 13th July 1788, when a great storm swept
across the country. In a few minutes, the temperature dropped 13 degrees,
the sun was hidden and hailstones the size of a baby's head swept over the
richest farming country in the land - 900 000 hectares were affected, trees
were uprooted, vineyards destroyed and harvests spoiled. Over a thousand
villages suffered. Roofs blew off and church steeples were brought down.
It was not long before the superstitious were proved right - it was a
terrible sign of calamity and violent, sudden death. Neither was it a good
sign that the price of bread began to rise day by day, hordes of beggars
moved along the roads and over 100 000 destitute people found their way
to Paris.
Another bad omen was that the winter of 1788-1789 in France was
extremely severe. The harbour of Marseille froze over. All traffic between
Dover and Calais stopped. The mills iced over and could not grind flour,
so that the shortage of bread became disastrous.
This is why the populace could be incited to revolt. The riots went on
throughout the winter. On the 1st of March 1789, the 19-year-old
lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte was sent to Dijon to crush a riot but he
refused to take the king's side. He chose to go over to the revolutionaries.
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