18. Which generalization best summarizes the views of the author of following passage: "During the greater part of the day the guillotine had
been kept busy at its ghastly work Every aristocratwas a traitor For
two hundred years now the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved to
keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those
who had helped to make these courts brilliant had to hide for their lives."