Question

Describe the impact of the French revolution on the people of the world

Answer 1

Negative Impact :-
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Thousands of people executed during the Reign of Terror, courtesy of La GuillotineMore than 2 decades of war for FranceIt got rid of one monarch (Louis XVI) only to give rise to another one (Napoleon Bonaparte)Widespread hunger and poverty everywhere you lookedAll the wars made sure the peace in Europe was as fragile as ever

Positive impact :-
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First of all, it plucked out Monarchy, root and stem, and gave the world a new form of governance - DEMOCRACY. If it weren’t for the Revolution, people would still be grovelling at the feet of obese kings.It put an end to the Clergy’s appalling tyranny. Priests were no longer allowed to parade themselves to be ‘holier than thou’The Revolution said NO to any preferential treatment. Everybody works. Everybody pays taxes. NO exceptions.It gave birth to the greatest literary movement of all time - Romanticism, where poets like William Wordsworth, John Keats, Shelly, Byron, Samuel Coleridge etc., filled the world with their magic. Essentially art, in all its beautiful forms, flourished.