Struggling from an impoverished, starving Parisian worker all the way to an astute revolutionist that proposed innovative laws to bring more equality and rights to the French commoners, this is Dieudonné Babin. Throughout the French Revolution, he, as an apprehensive and zealous juvenile, had internal conflicts of uncertainty, hesitation, and trepidation. Through the conflicts, he grew up, worked hard to fight as a soldier, and was able to gain more benefits for himself. He recorded his bravery, brilliant wit, self-reflection, and the fall of absolutism and unfairness in France.

The French Revolution was a 10-year-long gory and dramatic abolishment of monarchy and prerogatives to embrace a republic with equality, liberty, and fraternity. Was it successful? Are the great efforts that Dieudonné Babin put into the revolution worth it?

Although the French Revolution resulted in 17,000 brutal executions on the guillotine, drew France into wars, inflation, and starvation, and didn’t eradicate the corruption and poor administration of the government, the revolution was successful because there was more equality, access to education, secularism, freedom, and rights of the French commoners. In addition, a sense of nationalism fueled after Napoleon had a series of military victories. There was no more state religion, monarchy, feudalism, and France became a republic!