What was the French Revolution of 1789?

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was the decade that destroyed the French monarchy, dismantled feudalism and proclaimed the universal rights of man — while devouring its own children in the Terror. It invented modern politics: left and right, the citizen-army, the secular state and the national anthem were all born in revolutionary France.

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