The problem is that, Americans, like French, believe in a false interpretation of the French Revolution. So this is always something that saddens me when I read threads about the French Revolution on this board.
I hope that the next centuries will finally reveal what really was the French Revolution, a bourgeois revolution.
Of course it was a bourgeois revolution. No one really disputes that.
Um...highly recommend you read...pretty much anything by François Furet. Or Lynn Hunt's
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. The phrase bourgeois revolution itself has been seriously questioned over the last thirty years, but especially in the case of the French Revolution, where so many of the leading participants were not from any sort of commercial background at all.
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