The French Revolution On July 14, 1789, an angry mob of French commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris. These low-class citizens had only one thing on their minds as they initiated a nation at war, and that was revenge - revenge on the King and the government, on the nobles and the wealthy. Dickens stunningly depicted the motive for this revenge, this hate that all peasants had for the aristocracy, in A Tale of Two Cities. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . " In these famous words, Dickens renders an image of the unity of good and bad at the time of the French Revolution. These words e