Though its importance in history cannot be questioned, what made

>>2736473
Hungry masses and being surrounded by nations that hated them, along other things.

Read Diderot and then read Locke, that'll tell you everything you need to know.

>>2736473
The American Revolution was about englishmen asserting their traditional rights as englishmen. It was pretty conservative, in a way. The French Revolution was about the overthrow of the old social order and a complete remaking of society and got way more autistic about the rights of man.

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Because the French Revolution was a genuine popular movement to implement the ideals of the Enlightenment, to change the world for better, fueled by an actual oppression by a despotic regime, while the American Revolution was about a bunch of wealthy landowners not wanting to pay their taxes.

>>2736514
>he doesn't know merchants are middle-class

>>2736473
Because we were a lot more butthurt, because our monarchy was absolute and the king didnt wanna play ball, because foreign powers try to intervene and made us paranoid, because we wanted to do a better revolution than the americans.

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>>2736473
The American Revolution was barely one to begin with, had their enemy's seat power far away from them had powerful allies backing it up and finally was secluded from the world stage geographically.

The First French Republic had no such luxuries. That is why people still acknowledge the extent and influence of the French Revolution to be more than the American

>>2736473
Think about the actual shifts in government that took place within the French Government. Also, the poor masses of Paris radicalized it. There was no central hub in the United States that could control the rest of the country.

>>2736473
The american revolution was more of the american revolt t b h fampai. America traded one rich group of aristocrats for another then went through the same democratization as everyone else as time went on.

>>2736473

Revolutions are always like that. The American Revolution wasn't really a revolution, it was simply a separatist movement that succeeded. In a real revolution, the old government is destroyed and replaced by a new government. The American colonies wanted to secede from the British Empire and they did. The British Empire wasn't destroyed by this separation, and Americans had neither the will nor capability to attack the British monarchy. After successfully gaining independence, the United States generally tried to maintain good relations with Britain whenever possible.

>>2736625
That's close to being a no true Scotsman reply.

Revolutions happened in many countries were relatively speaking less people died and on whole things were more peaceful than the American Revolution.

>>2736473
It was led by violent autists like Robespierre who then proceeded, an autistically violent way, kill rationals who weren't violent or autists.

>>2736646
>thinking Robespierre ruled like a tyrant
He was probably the least prone to execution

>>2736804
keek

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>>2736514
>the French Revolution was a genuine popular movement

Why do Americans keep pretending the two are in any way comparable?

That's like asking what made the French Revolution so much more autistic and volatile than the Bee Gees.

>>2736804
Early on yes, but he honestly had a mental breakdown or something.

>>2738075
Lafayette collobrated with Jefferson on the Declaration of the Rights of Man

>>2736473
Read Hannah Arendt's On Revolution. She deals with this at length. Essentially, during the Revolutionary period, the French revolutionaries allowed themselves to be overwhelmed into tyranny by attempting to address the suffering of the masses, believing freedom sprang most meaningfully from the elimination of privation (which in France at that time was incredibly severe for the great majority of the populace, and which had never been given voice in public affairs). The American Revolutionaries were more concerned with creating structures of public access to political affairs, as they believed this was the most meaningful form of social freedom (though, according to Arendt, they essentially failed to make this a reality, its just that their revolutionary politics were less susceptible to extremism because of their vastly different goals from their French counterparts).

>>2738126
Neither Lafayette nor Jefferson wrote any part of that declaration.