Why did the French Revolution become so bloody?

The
French Revolution was particularly bloody due to the level of repression by the French monarchy
andthe determination and militant resistance displayed by the French revolutionaries. The French
Revolution consisted of a popular struggle of both working class people in the cities and rural
spaces, as well as the emerging middle-class merchants of the cities and ports. The interests of
these two distinct classes were not the same in their motivations for the revolution, but they
held the same enemy, which was the French monarchy. However, the tensions between the working
class and rising bourgeoisie in the revolution attributed to the violence as the factions
engaged in internal fights once the monarchy was disposed. The invention of the guillotine just
prior to the French Revolution allowed for quick and numerous executions by the French monarchy,
and then, with the...