2006-08-01 04:47:00 · 3 answers · asked by Bloom 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
None, really. The French Revolution was a terrible failure that ended by eating its own in the Terror, and then burying itself in the Napoleonic years simply to find some semblence of order. The Ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity were the products of the British Liberal tradition of Locke and Hume. They were realized in the American Revolution, but would not be present in France until the 3rd Republic
2006-08-01 04:58:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The French Declaration of the Rights of man can be traced to our American revolution. Our was first, and Many of our Republican form of government ideals were transfered back across the Atlantic. Jack
2006-08-01 13:55:03 · answer #2 · answered by genius vs. genius 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, you have your influences switched--we were already independent by the time of the French Revolution. In fact, one reason they even had a revolution was because of the influence we had on them. Mainly, Benjamin Franklin spent a great deal of time there trying to convince the French to fight on our side of the Revolutionary War. He was a charming fellow, and played the backwater bumpkin to the hilt, even though he was actually a very metropolitan, rich man. He became the darling of Paris society, and his influence, as well as that of those Frenchmen who fought with us, helped cause the French Revolution.
2006-08-02 13:53:57 · answer #3 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋