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block_daggeryesterday at 10:46 PM1 replyview on HN

French Revolution says the people win in that case but who knows.


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tuatoruyesterday at 10:57 PM

No. The French Revolution was a revolution of lawyers, writers, and administrators, the elite who were shut out of the very highest positions. And it was unstable. The great majority of people were just cannon fodder for Napoleon.