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by CamperBob2 277 days ago
Wow. What in the world are they teaching kids in school these days?
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Do you know of a french person who wants to return to the Bourbon rule? me neither. They like that they live within a republic. A revolution was necessary to achieve this. Hence my parent comment.
But the revolution didn't achieve this. The revolution achieved the Terror, and then Napoleon, and then back to the Bourbon monarchy! (I mean, I guess they did at least get constitutional limitations on the monarchy...)
... and then the second republic, and then the second empire, and then a republic again. All part of the same movement.
And naturally, you expect to come out on the winning side of this "revolution," right?