>>1531802You'd be surprised!
The French Revolution has a central theme running through it, that is, how the kingdom of France could define itself without the binding means and norms of the Bourbon Monarchy. Because of that, throughout the various stages of the Revolution, there was a consistent struggle on how to define the concept they were redeveloping, unused since the Roman times in Europe, that which is known as National Unity, or a country that is defined by virtue of citizenship over being subjects of a crown or noble. Similar ideas were taken up in the United States, and it showed a far simpler revolution, but the French Revolution can teach you a lot about Unity. Specifically, how the most successful phases up to and including the Napoleonic Era defined Unity in an incredibly wide way. The failed phases, such as the Committee of Public Safety, defined Unity as being in agreement with their national doctrine, while the National Assembly and the Consulate defined it as simply being a citizen who supported France.
In contrast, the Haitian Revolution is defined by tribalfaggotry. Tribes formed between the slaves and the master, the whites and the blacks, the rich and the poor, the Colony and the Metropole, etc. And because of that tribalfaggotry, the Haitian Revolution ended in a terrible fate for the country itself, even if the slave population succeeded in freeing themselves from enslavement. It ended in a brutal purge of the French, at the cost of a country that had no means to succeed on it's own. I see in that, a dark reflection of the difference between us and our sister thread.
The understanding of Revolutionary Doctrine and progression is vital to understanding a thread as ever-changing as this one.