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[–] Didros 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the revolution spiral out of hand, allowing Napoleon to seize power and crown himself emperor, leading to a series of wars that killed millions of people?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Look, it might have got a little out of hand but ask yourself:

Does the HRE or the French Monarchy still exist?

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not since the Third Republic. But directly after Napoleon, power went back to the monarchy for like 50 years, so I'm not sure how much credit the guillotine deserves.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

A 50 year relapse to eradicate an infection that lasted for 1300 years ain't bad.

The reality is the French Revolution is why most of Europe is democratic now, it demonstrated more than anything else until the Russian Revolution that the "commoners" could not only win a war against the entrenched nobility, but that those nobles should be very, very fuckin scared of the idea and maybe get on board with the idea of a constitutional monarchy if nothing else.

[–] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

The French Revolution is a very good example of violent revolutions not working. The terror was much worse than anything the ancien régime had done, the country was plunged into a massive war and that shitshow was followed up by replacing the king with an emperor and ultimately with the restoration of the pre-revolution monarchy.