Question

What could have happened differently to make the French Revolution a success?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The French Revolution failed because it could never establish a stable government capable of governing and defending France. It rocked back and forth, accused people unjustly and ended up devouring its own revolutionaries. ... The French Revolution succeeded in some ways, but wound up in the hands of Napoleon.

Answer 2

the French Revolution is fascinating at least in part because of its inherent contradictions. For instance, the revolution absolutely destroyed the royal Bourbon order of King Louis XVI, but the French people went on to embrace a dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte, almost immediately afterwards, thus replacing one authoritarian leader with another. Additionally, although revolutionaries fervently called for liberty, many of them later helped carry out the ruthless and oppressive Reign of Terror that suppressed perceived anti-revolutionary activity with the widespread use of the guillotine, thus breaking any promises of liberty that they had made. These contradictions are what make the French Revolution so tricky to understand. The very nature of the revolution is hard to grasp because it was full of contradictions, and for this reason, there is a common perception in the English-speaking world that the French Revolution was a failure and mistake. As Professor Rivka Weill of Yale University writes, “We are thus accustomed to use the American experience as a model of successful exercise in popular sovereignty, the French revolution as a model to avoid…” (430). Critics of the revolution often cite the inability of the French Revolution to establish a robust democratic system of government as proof of its failure. This was also my perception of the French Revolution prior to taking this course.

However, there is another way to view the revolution. Those who see the French Revolution as a success cite the abolition of the monarchy and the subsequent spread of enlightenment ideas across Europe and the world as proof that the revolution was a success. In order to investigate this question more closely, I decided to examine The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which is the document that best embodies the ideals to which the revolution aspired.