“The last French Bourbon to reign, Charles X, brother of the guillotined Louis XVI and of his brief successor, Louis XVIII, displayed a recurring type of folly best described as the Humpty-Dumpty type: that is to say, the effort to reinstate a fallen and shattered structure, turning back history. In the process, called reaction or counter-revolution, the reactionary right is bent on restoring the privileges and property of the old regime and somehow retrieving a strength it did not have before.” HistoryFollyConservatismGuillotineHumpty DumptyReactionaryCounter RevolutionCharles XAhistorical Triumphalism Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam