They are the anti-Catholic riots called the Gordon Riots, which take place in London.

而是反天主教暴乱,称作戈登暴动,地点发生在伦敦

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True in a sense: but these changes just made Paris more like London, which had the frightening Gordon Riots in 1780, but no revolution.

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John Wilkes, of the Hell-Fire Club, faced a similar dilemma during the Gordon Riots of 1780, when an anti-Catholic demonstration in London escalated into an orgy of burning and looting.

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