Whenever I look back at the past history classes I have
taken I realized that I don’t know much about the French Revolution. While
reading about the change of power in France it was shocking to hear how the
people revolted to the point where they would execute their own King and Queen.
The clergy of the Catholic Churches must have been fearful of their lives
because they had as much power as the King and Queen did. It was very
disappointing to read about how much violent action the French counterpart participated
in. Strayer mentions but doesn’t go in much details about the Reign of Terror,
and it made me think about the lives that were all lost. If the French
participated in the American Revolution, then they would have seen all the
lives that were lost. The French should have learned from the mistakes of the
Americans and try to preserve as much life as possible.
It was
really heart breaking to read that the French started destroying all things
that once belong to the King and the Catholic Church. The reign of the King and
the Churches must have been that terrible that the French citizens wanted to
destroy all evidence. I would like to think that the French were people that
prided themselves in their culture and they would have wanted to preserve what
they had. One thing that I found very surprising in the reading was the
leadership of Napoleon. I have always seen him portrayed as the bad guy, the
person that is running people out of their homelands. But Strayer points him
out in a positive view, he was a man that was expanding the French Ruling and
he was fighting for equality in France. It was surprising to read about the
positive facts of Napeople when I have always heard negative things about him.
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