The Common Man: Savagery Hidden behind Revolution

The French Revolution was a time of great change for the common man. The common people are often thought of as the catalyst and the driving force of the French Revolution, seen as the wronged people who were fighting for their inherent rights. But was this struggle for their inherent rights enough to justify the means by which they fought for them? The common man of the French Revolution were known of for their acts of savagery and violence. When storming the Bastille the people of Paris were said to have hacked the warden of the prison into pieces, then stuck his head on a pike and paraded it around the city streets. When the fish-mongers wives stormed the palace of Versailles they killed royal guards and chased after Marie Antoinette with the intent to slaughter her, if not for the intervention of General Lafayette, their own leader. When their demands for the king to reside in Paris till their rewriting of the constitution was finished, the common French then celebrated raucously and insulted the royal family as they paraded them to Paris in a procession led by the heads of two french officials, stuck on pikes. Their revolutionary spirit and outcry for rights was undoubtedly not at fault, but do you believe that their quest for rights was enough to justify their savage means of attaining said rights?