The French Revolution sowed several key seeds of democracy, including the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, which emphasized the importance of individual rights and collective governance. It challenged the absolute monarchy and feudal privileges, leading to the establishment of a republic and the idea that sovereignty belongs to the people. The revolution also inspired the creation of democratic institutions and encouraged the spread of revolutionary ideas across Europe, promoting movements for representative government and civil rights. Furthermore, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen laid foundational principles for modern democratic thought.
He may have been responsible for it, but he did not start it.
Slavery had been ended by the French Revolution but Napoleon tried to bring it back.
America was torn in response to the French Revolution. On the one hand, it was the French government that funded the Americans in their Revolution against England, but on the other hand, the revolutionaries in France wanted the same rights the Americans just recently fought for, and the Americans believed the deserved the same freedoms they now owned. Therefor, the Americans overall didn't take a side in the Revolution, but helped build the new French government after the Revolution. America has since been a strong ally of France.
At the time of the revolution, only men paying more than three days of a laborer's wage of tax were admitted to vote.
Because they had openly allied themselves to the cause of the American Revolution after the Battle of Saratoga. French Military assistance before that event had been provided covertly, but in ample measure so as to provide a major victory. The long time French traditional enemy of the United Kingdom had been soundly defeated in the New World.
The French revolution sent shock waves through the European monarchy. It left them all wondering who would be the next to be depose in a revolution. Many people around the world were affected by the french revolution not just England. It changed the way that people thought about being run by a monarchy or a royal family. People started to realise that this was not the way that many countries should have been run and wanted a change. The main reason Australia is a democracy today was because of the french revolution and fight against the monarchy.
As far as I'm aware, The French Revolution was started by the French, not by George Washington, who was and had been the only US President at the time of the French Revolution. Unless the Americans have built a time machine.
They had been bitter rivals during the Seven Years Wars and on opposite sides in the American Revolution.
No they did not. The French Zouaves were first created as a unit in Algeria in 1831. Since the French Revolution ended with Napoleon's coup in 1899 such an engagement could not have been fought.
He may have been responsible for it, but he did not start it.
they woudl have been beheaded on the guilloteen
France is a republic with no monarch since the French Revolution in 1789. The last French monarch, King Louis XVI, was overthrown during the revolution, and the country has been a republic ever since.
England and France had been at war with each other for centuries, and France had helped the Americans fight their American Revolution against the English. Therefore, England did not support anything French. Also, no other countries what soever supported the French Revolution.
He was convicted of being opposed to the French Revolution and thus a traitor. He may have been inept and indecisive but that rarely ranks as a Capital offense.
Slavery had been ended during the French Revolution but Napoleon tried to put slavery back into force on the island.
it didnt. the American revolution happened before the french revolution
It had to be protected against royalist counter revolution.