🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the French Revolution had gone differently?
1789 · france
France abolishes its monarchy and exports revolution at bayonet point.
If it had gone differently: The Bourbons reform slowly from above; Europe's old order bends instead of breaking.
What it set up
- 1791The Haitian Revolution, No state is founded by the formerly enslaved; abolition loses its sharpest argument for decades.
- 1803The Napoleonic Wars, Nationalism stays a fringe idea; the map of Europe keeps its little principalities for another century.
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