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The
revolution in France has captivated the imaginations of historians since it
exploded the European landscape over two hundred years ago.
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There
are few if any events in European history that are regarded as fundamental to
the character of the European world as the giddy, frightening, farcical, and
overwhelmingly tragic events during and after the French Revolution.
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It may
be that the event has been grossly overestimated. It was, after all, a
complete failure; it ended the monarchy in France, but it ended in a
different monarchy so repugnant and violent that the sloppy laziness of the
eighteenth century monarchy simply palled in relation to the calculated
violence of the years of Napoleon's emperorship.
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The
ideas of the revolution were not new; in fact, the revolution itself was
simply a gathering point, a boiling pot in which ideas of the Enlightenment
and the philosophes erupted into a single action..
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Reference:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REV/REV.HTM
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Richard Hooker
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Source: http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture15a.html
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The History Guide
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