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The overall causes of the French Revolution include the rigid, unequal Estate System that burdened the poor with taxes, France's severe financial crisis from costly wars and poor leadership, and the influence of Enlightenment ideas promoting liberty and democracy.
Poor harvests, food shortages, and high food prices were the last straw. King Louis XVI failed to enact necessary reforms and pitchforks and torches were passed out.
It ended with the guillotine for the Royals. The guillotine was actually produced to be more humane, and thus could be allowed for use on all social classes. It was seen as "being equal before the eyes of the law".
And that is why it was used with the Royals. As a symbol that we are all equal.
Anyways, we currently don't have:
So I'd have to say we are preeeeeeeeetty far removed from being where they were when they had a revolution.
Anyways, what are you guys thinking about?
are we going to sit here and pretend that the monarchy was preferable
If we cannot even agree that the French Revolution was overall a step in the right direction compared to keeping the status quo we're certainly not going to agree on other revolutions lol
It's a troll account, these are his first two comments.
There were actually three of them, to start (late 18th to mid-19th centuries). They were extremely bloody, but the monarchy/military was executing their opponents so frequently that they couldn't wash the blood out of the town squares.
For more details just google/wikipedia. There's way too much history to summarize in a reddit post.
Well, certainly the French Revolution was immediately followed by a durable democratic state, like in Russia after the Bolsheviks
Correct, the Bolsheviks were flawed but life in the USSR drastically improved.