Posted: Apr 12, 2016 2:00 am
I think such similarities will belong to hindsight sometime in the future. Immediate links I can see are beheadings and serious social dislocation in the region. The French revolution was not one thing but many, and can perhaps be broken down into a number of stages with the initial revolt followed by the 'terror' followed by the reaction to it and the early wars both civil and international, with the Directory being a entirely different period. Whether Napoleons consulship and finally dictatorship as Emperor are actually part of the revolution or just a result of will depend on points of view, and it could be argued that it continued in the 1840's and onto the Paris Commune at least.