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That did not end well. The October revolution also didn't end well.
by cryptonector 8y ago
That did not end well.
The October revolution also didn't end well.
- BugsJustFindMe 8y agoIt went poorly, hello Terror, but the only sense in which it didn't end well is that the French realized that they actually did want an empire-building monarch after all, goodbye First Republic, hello Napoleon.
- cryptonector 8y agoDid they? It's not like there was a referendum on whether to have an emperor, and then an election for who should be the emperor, and then periodic successive elections. It was all a disaster through and through. From La Terreur to Napoleon and his wars, it was a disaster. Worse than that, La Terreur set a pattern that has been repeated (and, sadly, "improved") in the many years since.