@WB_Baskerville Did it fail? A modernized monarchy was the original goal in the first fights and they got one! But did they unleash some demons in the process
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@WB_Baskerville Yea but this seems like a both/and
@WB_Baskerville I think a lot of it stuck though, the empire and its successors were profoundly bourgeois and the transformation of France into a centralized state without all the feudal particularism like the gabele made a huge improvement in French lives. Also the napoleonic conquests swept