![]() Aside from immense suffering, the upheaval achieved nothing. After this pointless slaughter came the restoration of the same corrupt regime that the Revolution overthrew. Yet what these fine ideals led to was, first, the Terror and mass murder in France, and then Napoleon and his wars, which took hundreds of thousands of lives in Europe and Russia. True, in the name of liberty, equality, and fraternity, it overthrew a corrupt regime. But as revolutions go, the French one in 1789 was among the worst. The American attitude toward the French Revolution has been generally favorable-naturally enough for a nation itself born in revolution.
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