Which people were involved in the French revolution?

Answer 1

Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" ended Royalist counter revolutionary aspiration with 1,400 dead in the Paris streets in defense of the Directory. People were everywhere. Many were in search of food, but there were also numerous factions involved in the Revolution.

Answer 2

It was considered to be a popular or grass roots revolution with the man in the street in the leadership role. That leadership was usurped by the lawyers, philosophers and politicians who soon began to take command of the country.

Answer 3

It is considered to have been a popular or grass roots form of revolution involving at its Genesis the man on the street rather than some form of philosophy that created the movement. The Storming of the Bastille was not a planned event. The Women's Bread March on Versaillle was not dreamed up by a cabal of politicians or Enlightenment Theorists. They were spontaneous. They simply happened.