Tap the square to drop a rotten tomato or a pike, and someone in the crowd picks it up: tomatoes fly at the tower, pikes are shaken at it. Tap a window, or a person with a name, for a close-up. Nobody is guillotined here.
The cart’s order a new arrival every 5 correct answers
About this scene
This scene brings every stage of the Revolution into one place. The Bastille fell on 14 July 1789 and was pulled down by the builder Palloy. The guillotine was first used in 1792 and became the machine of the Terror of 1793 and 1794; in June 1794 it even stood for a short time on the place de la Bastille, where the fortress had been, before it moved on to the place du Trône-Renversé.
The people in the cart are real. Between 1784 and 1795 they waited in the Bastille, the Temple, the Abbaye, La Force, the Carmes, Saint-Lazare and other prisons. Here they all wait in the same tower, and none of them was guillotined.
The faces that step out of the crowd are real too. The words on their title cards were really said, and they are quoted word for word from the old books named in Who’s who.
The rotten tomatoes are the game’s own invention. A popular story says that Paris learned to eat tomatoes from the volunteers of Marseille who came to the capital during the Revolution, though its tellers disagree on the year. The pikes are not invented: they were the weapon of the Paris crowd. The unicorn that pulls the cart is the game’s invention too: the real carts were pulled by horses.
Who’s who
Everyone here is real. The prisoners were shut in between 1784 and 1795, in the Bastille, the Temple, the Abbaye, La Force, the Carmes, Saint-Lazare and other prisons; in this game they all wait in the same tower, and none of them was guillotined. The faces in the crowd come with words that were really said, quoted from the books named under each card. No fact here comes from Wikipedia.
In the tower
On the square
Irregular verbs
The irregular verbs in this game. Orange participles look different from the past form. Regular verbs just add -ed: analyze → analyzed → analyzed. Hang has two forms: hung for things, hanged for executions.