“Pre-revolution” is doing a lot of work in that sentence
The point is to compare the daily life the monarch would have considered "normal."
"Pre-revolution" is just to preempt any "Hurr hurr he'd be ecstatic not to have his head chopped off LOL."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI
The point is to compare the daily life the monarch would have considered "normal."
"Pre-revolution" is just to preempt any "Hurr hurr he'd be ecstatic not to have his head chopped off LOL."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI