Of Smith, Turgot, and the Physiocrats, the great French political leader and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) wrote: The basis of their whole economic system may be truly said to lie in the principle of self-interest. . .. ... The Bastille was no longer being used as a political prison, and Louis XVI had even made plans to destroy it. ... By confiscating church property, no matter how justified, France's Revolutionary leaders showed that they weren't interested in a true free society, only in one created in the image of their own philosophers. ... The purge, the commune, the color...

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In 1795, he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. ... It was through the application of his skills, and a revolutionary style of spontaneous fighting styles than gave Napoleon the opportunities, which he jumped at, making his the great military leader he is known as today. ... Two years after this Russia and Austria joined the British in a second coalition. ... The impact of Napoleon on the political and social structure of Europe was not everywhere the same. ... Where French Revolutionary armies had passed before, overturning feudal and ecclesiastical ins...

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The bourgeois saw their chance to voice their complaints about the unbearable mercantilism that hindered their economic success and advance in social and political status. ... A split slowly opened up between the moderate and radical revolutionaries. ... Maximilien Robespierre, the "guiding spirit" of the radical revolutionaries, ruled over the chaos until he was overcome by the moderates, who came back with a fury and finally drove a republican constitution to approval by the National Convention. ... Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. ...

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The Reign of Terror At the onset of the French Revolution, the revolutionaries who felt that the Monarchy of Louis XVI was tyrannical and could no longer be trusted to protect to people of France exclaimed the tenements of Fraternity, liberty, and equality. ... Robespierre and his followers believed that their Terror was on the side of the Revolutionaries of "Older times" which actually only occurred four years prior. ... Robespierre believed that France's government and indeed all of France needed to be cleansed of all the filthy people who littered the opposite side of the street,...

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