The French Revolution: Difference between revisions

See also [[French Political System]], for all the bizarre things that have happened in France since then.

 

* [[The American Revolution]]: Whatever one may say, the two are linked together as contemporary events inspired by similar ideals. France's support of America during the Revolutionary War was one of many reasons France went bankrupt while many French revolutionary leaders were at least partly inspired by events across the pond; many, like Thomas Paine and Marquis de Lafayette, participated in both. Americans were nonetheless disgusted at the bloodshed of the French Revolution; death is inevitable in such things, but a lot of what was happening in France was so gratuitously cruel that there was little excuse.

* [[Angry Mob Song]]: ''La Marseillaise'', now the French national anthem. See also ''La Carmagnole'' and ''Ah ca Ira.''