INR 4030 Lecture 2: French Revolution
Document Summary
The french revolution introduces ideology in 1789. France was the most powerful and rich country in europe at this time so this is a big deal. You can"t really have both liberty and equality. equality is not a natural state of things so in order to have equality the gov"t needs to impose it which detracts from the liberty. Fraternity in this revolution meant to make france as hegemony as possible. Levee en masse is the raising of mass troops. Napoleon rose through the ranks and demonstrated his military genius and he stepped in and posed order when the revolution started getting too wild. He established his own type of aristocracy and crowned himself emperor. With a huge army the french went on from their to over run all of europe.
