ABSTRACT
The French Revolution and its immediate aftermath in other states on the Continent ended the tradition of law that based authority on the body of law that descended from ancient imperial Rome with the Church grafted on. 1 When people as a mass rejected that authority they became atheistic regicidal mobs. The government they cobbled together stabled horses in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and Versailles, royalty's most conspicuous expression, was saved from destruction only by the heat of the day that wearied a Parisian mob bent on wrecking it.
