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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7740187" data-attributes="member: 6683613">By 1775, the philosophe movement was in full swing. The writings of Montesquieu and Diderot and Voltaire and Rousseau were in wide circulation. France was in the middle of a financial crisis, and resentment against the aristocracy and the king in particular was rising. Yes, Louis and Marie's heads were still on their shoulders, but France was well on its way to a political upheaval. The French Revolution was all but inevitable in some form, irrespective of what happened four thousand miles away across the Atlantic.I will add further that the French Revolution was famously an uprising of the bourgeoisie. That word does not mean "peasant". Robespierre and Danton were lawyers, Saint-Just was a writer, and Napoleon of course was a military officer. None of the revolutionary leaders lacked for education.</blockquote>