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by AnimalMuppet 281 days ago
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...)
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... and then the second republic, and then the second empire, and then a republic again. All part of the same movement.