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> Also if you are talking about France it was to create democracy, not to change the economic system

I'm no expert on the French Revolution but I'm pretty sure that "We're all poor while the monarchs are all rich" was a huge driving force behind the French Revolution. "Let them eat cake", etc

It also didn't create democracy, they more or less immediately wound up under Napoleon, a self crowned Emperor

Democracy came later



> It also didn't create democracy, they more or less immediately wound up under Napoleon, a self crowned Emperor

It did create democracy, the French Republic, Napoleon did end that though but its much easier to reinstate democracy later than to create it from scratch.

> I'm no expert on the French Revolution but I'm pretty sure that "We're all poor while the monarchs are all rich" was a huge driving force behind the French Revolution. "Let them eat cake", etc

Revolutions to loot the rich happened a lot throughout history, but here the explicit goal was to end monarchy and create democracy not just looting the rich, that is a big difference.




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