The French Revolution
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was an unstable, blood-filled time. With 20,000 sent to the
guillotine and an equal number to prison, it is not hard to find importance but rather to
find meaning. The most crucial thing to look for in the revolution is justification, reasons
that excuse or bring significance to the deaths of ma ....
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.... among the people, the peace that seemed so
lacking during the French Revolution. The French Revolution was a disaster for the
following reasons: it happened too fast, it went too far, and it achieved too little.
Thomas Paine a radical thinker of the era once said ‘Time makes more converts
than reason’. With this quote we can see why revolution was successful in England, but
not France. England slowly used the Magna Carta (1213), Petition of Rights (1628), and
the Habeas Corpus Act ....
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