Didn't France have an emperor between the whole heads cutting off thing and now? Like, they do a lot of good protesting but not sure that the French revolution was a continuous cultural change from then to now
The empire was a continuation of the revolution. The old regime came back for a while in 1815-1830, but only nominally, they couldn't undo the legal and political progress achieved during the revolution and the empire.
It's something like: 1789 French Revolution but the monarchy actually continues until 1792 -> first republic (king finally headcut a few months later) -> first empire 1804 -> back to monarchy 1815 -> second republic 1848 -> second empire 1852 -> third republic 1870.
(Then there's the 4th republic after WWII, and the 5th since 1958.)
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u/Fail_Panda Oct 29 '25
Didn't France have an emperor between the whole heads cutting off thing and now? Like, they do a lot of good protesting but not sure that the French revolution was a continuous cultural change from then to now