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It 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
by BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
It 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.