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French revolution- Its from Peter Kropotkins book on the French Revolution; I encountered it recently thanks to a post at The Picket Line . Thus:. After the night of August 4, these urban insurrections spread still more. Indications of them are seen I've always had a dim view of the French Revolution, so I found Burke's 1790 impressions of it fascinating. He wrote before the Terror started, but he had a very clear idea as to what was coming - and predicted the rise of a military Besides they are not as old as some would like us to think; the two words were in vogue from the French Revolution up until a few years ago when at the onset of the American counter-revolution they became somewhat politically incorrect. I've always had a dim view of the French Revolution, so I found Burke's 1790 impressions of it fascinating. He wrote before the Terror started, but he had a very clear idea as to what was coming - and predicted the rise of a military An important event of the closing years of the eighteenth century, which stirred all Europe, and the English Romantics in particular, is the French Revolution. The Prelude tells us much about Wordsworths reaction to the French A New French Revolution - by Fareed Zakaria. In an essay in the current issue of The American Interest, Brookings scholar Philip Gordon writes that Sarkozy might well be able to make France a larger player in the world, "punching above Besides they are not as old as some would like us to think; the two words were in vogue from the French Revolution up until a few years ago when at the onset of the American counter-revolution they became somewhat politically incorrect. Though the people came to hate him, Napoleon brought to Prussia the lessons of the French Revolution. The nationalism that saved France from European enemies became the same force that motivated Prussia, which joined with the remainder Right-wing pundit Bernie Goldberg claims that FDR and Woodrow Wilson were both fascists, and derived their ideology from "the first fascists" - the instigators of the French Revolution. Support social programs shows "fascist tendencies" I found that many of my students were very interested in the French Revolution because of all of the war that occurred during that time. One of the specific lessons they gained interest in was the introduction of the guillotine. Superficially, the charm of Quebec City and Old Montreal is that of pre-French Revolution Europe. Photograph of Old Montreal reproduced by kind permission of photographer Kimberly Way (Musical Mint - Flickr; all rights reserved)