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The 14th century French cardinal Pierre d'Ailly once prophesised that the year 1789 would mark the coming of the Antichrist. Did anyone in France that year make the connection between d'Ailly's prophecy and the beginning of the French Revolution?

by /u/Velteau in /r/AskHistorians

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