Who are the antagonists in the story "ali baba and the 40 thieves", and are they're bad guys?

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

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16.) true

17.) true

18.) it doesn't say

19.) true

20.) false

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