French Revolution: Birth and Death of France

The French Revolution of 1789 was a culmination of disastrous events of the rule of Louis the Beloved, who ruled from 1710 to 1774 (Harris & Bernier, 1987), more commonly known as Louis the Xv of France and the American Revolution of 1775, which put France on the path to revolution.

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The French Revolution was also caused by Louis the Xv, grandson of Louis Xvi’s intervention in the American Revolution (Hill & Perkins, 1911).

The Kingdom of France cumulated debts fighting the British during the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783.

The French Revolution was caused by discontent in France since the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 (Sosin, 1957).

The French monarchy would never truly be able to recover its prestige due to the popular opinion that the peace treaty was a stupid piece, and the French monarchy never truly recovered.

The French Revolution was a reformist and only became genuinely violent after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793.

The legacy of the French Revolution was that it left Europe fighting over 23 years of war in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars between 1792 and 1815 (Valladares, 2018).

The more damaging and primary effect of the French Revolution was that it left France with five republics and two empires (“A History of Modern France. Vol. III. France of the Republics,” 1965).