The noble rhetoric of "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" degenerates into a scenario of terror and death. Violence is the weapon used to de-Christianize France, the eldest daughter of the Church. Reduced to the status of a state agency, religion is repressed and Church property confiscated. Eventually driven underground, priests are persecuted and churches desecrated. Mr. Michael Davies describes the "The French Revolution: The Reign of Terror."