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by block_dagger 33 days ago
French Revolution says the people win in that case but who knows.
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tuatoru 33 days ago
No. The French Revolution was a revolution of lawyers, writers, and administrators, the elite who were shut out of the very highest positions. And it was unstable. The great majority of people were just cannon fodder for Napoleon.
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