> It also didn't create democracy, they more or less immediately wound up under Napoleon, a self crowned Emperor It did create democracy, the French Republic,

> It also didn't create democracy, they more or less immediately wound up under Napoleon, a self crowned Emperor It did create democracy, the French Republic, Napoleon did end that though but its much easier to reinstate democracy later than to create it from scratch. > I'm no expert on the French Revolution but I'm pretty sure that "We're all poor while the monarchs are all rich" was a huge driving force behind the French Revolution. "Let them eat cake", etc Revolutions to loot the rich happened a lot throughout history, but here the explicit goal was to end monarchy and create democracy not just looting the rich, that is a big difference.