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French Revolution
The French Revolution is the decade of political upheaval beginning in 1789 in which popular insurrection dismantled France's monarchy and aristocratic order through constitutional experiments, the Reign of Terror, and Napoleon's eventual rise to power.
Overview
The Revolution was the first large-scale attempt to rebuild a major state on Enlightenment principles — popular sovereignty, individual rights, and secular governance — and it generated lasting political vocabulary, including the concepts of left and right drawn from the seating arrangement in the 1789 National Assembly.
Why it matters
Its influence profoundly shaped European politics for generations: it inspired subsequent independence movements, provoked conservative counter-revolutions, and defined major traditions of political philosophy through Burke's conservative critique, Paine's defense of revolutionary principles, and Marx's materialist class analysis.
Where it leads
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