[WastingMyTime89]

> The mere fact that French Revolution can be told from the point of view of losers is a revelation to many French.

The French Revolution is always told from the point of view of losers. Most of its most prominent actors ended losing at some point and the whole thing ends with an epuration followed by a military coup.

The myth surrounding the Revolution has little to do with who won or lost. Like most of what the French view as their history, it is a construction dating from the rise of nationalism at the end of the 19th century.

[cm2187]

Actually probably more than nationalism, marxism theorised the french revolution as one of the key step of the march to socialism (the bourgeois overthrowing the feudal system, that was meant to be followed by the workers overthrowing the bourgeois system). I suspect this had more influence than nationalism on the school history books of the last 50 years.