Answer to Question #238038 in History for KEA

Question

Do you think that the rights of “equality, liberty, and fraternity [to meet freely as a group]” in the American Revolution (c. 1765-1784) and the French Revolution (1789-1799) included everyone, or did it exclude some people?

Answer 1

Some people were thought unfit for the new France. As a result, their liberty, equality, and fraternity were barred. The Revolution also failed to live up to its own principles in foreign affairs. The peasants, who had been the most oppressed before the Revolution, became the Jacobins in the reign.