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by vdupras 288 days ago
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.
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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?