April 28, 2025
The French Revolution

 

One wonders why the revolution broke out in France, the most advanced and prosperous country of the time.
Throughout the history of agricultural societies, peasant revolts have broken out — for example, in China (up to the Taiping Rebellion), Pugachev’s Rebellion in Russia, and the Peasants’ War during Luther’s time.
However, these uprisings did not question the established order (the power of the king and the nobility); rather, they fought against its disruption: they sought a return to the (providential, as they called it) order that had been broken.
In France, however, for a century radical doctrines critical of the traditional social order had been spreading.
Thus, it happened that one of the many popular uprisings became the Revolution (not just a revolution), the one that changed our history and the history of the entire world.