JD Vance blames France’s unrest on immigration and multiculturalism. But has he ever read French history? In July 1789, French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, killed its governor and paraded his severed head through the streets. In October, an angry crowd marched on Versailles over bread shortages, killed royal guards and forced the royal family to Paris. In August 1792, armed revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace and massacred the Swiss Guards. And on 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was sent to the guillotine as the Revolution consumed the monarchy. These were violent uprisings by French people against their own ruling system, driven by economic hardship, food shortages, inequality and political conflict. No one needed to import the “Third World” to make France burn. When white French people stormed palaces and put their own queen under the guillotine, it was a revolution. But when Vance sees unrest today, he blames multiculturalism. The problem with his argument is that France had a long, bloody history of internal conflict centuries before modern mass immigration. Perhaps Americans should pay attention to their own history before accepting lectures about France from racist ignorant politicians who use every crisis to scapegoat immigrants.