Sentence:  A British writer , Richard Haestier , in a book , Dead Men Tell Tales , recalls that in the turmoil preceding <WSD>French</WSD> Revolution the body of Henry /4 , , who had died nearly 180 years earlier , was torn to pieces by a mob . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789-1799