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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7740211" data-attributes="member: 6683613"><p><em>"O nation of France, you are not made to receive an example, but to set it!"</em></p><p>- Jean-Paul Rabaut de Saint-Étienne, French revolutionary</p><p></p><p>And indeed, they did almost nothing the Americans had done.</p><p></p><p>You have to remember that Europeans in general, and the notoriously Francocentric French in particular, viewed whatever happened in the Americas as a <em>sideshow</em>. The population numbers that you yourself just cited may provide some clue as to why. So claiming that an 18th-Century French political movement was inspired by the American Revolution is rather akin to claiming that a modern American political movement was inspired by events in the Philippines.</p><p></p><p> (On the other hand, they did do a lot that the <em>English</em> had done, back in 1649-1659. Not that any self-respecting Frenchman would ever own up to following an English example, but if you want to know where they really got the idea for beheading their king and establishing a republic that rapidly devolved into a dictatorship, you should probably start there.)</p><p></p><p>You appear to have missed the bit where I pointed out that the French Revolution was not a peasant revolt. In fact, in the outlying provinces of France, to preserve the lifestyle they had always known just like you said, the peasants revolted <em>against</em> the Revolution. Multiple times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 7740211, member: 6683613"] [I]"O nation of France, you are not made to receive an example, but to set it!"[/I] - Jean-Paul Rabaut de Saint-Étienne, French revolutionary And indeed, they did almost nothing the Americans had done. You have to remember that Europeans in general, and the notoriously Francocentric French in particular, viewed whatever happened in the Americas as a [I]sideshow[/I]. The population numbers that you yourself just cited may provide some clue as to why. So claiming that an 18th-Century French political movement was inspired by the American Revolution is rather akin to claiming that a modern American political movement was inspired by events in the Philippines. (On the other hand, they did do a lot that the [I]English[/I] had done, back in 1649-1659. Not that any self-respecting Frenchman would ever own up to following an English example, but if you want to know where they really got the idea for beheading their king and establishing a republic that rapidly devolved into a dictatorship, you should probably start there.) You appear to have missed the bit where I pointed out that the French Revolution was not a peasant revolt. In fact, in the outlying provinces of France, to preserve the lifestyle they had always known just like you said, the peasants revolted [I]against[/I] the Revolution. Multiple times. [/QUOTE]
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