Did you know The Storming of the Bastille is still honored in France as a national holiday?
Although the revolution had its failings, it also helped to end age-old power structures not only within France and Europe, but within their colonies as well. The French Revolution demonstrated that common people could wield political power and utterly transform a nation. In some respects, the French Revolution did not succeed. But the ideas of representational democracy and basic property rights took hold, and it sowed the seeds of the later revolutions of 1830 and 1848
The revolution’s benefits far outweighs its harms. Watch the common craft video in simple english, and read the timeline for more specific details.
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