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Former good article nomineeFrench Revolution was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Long-term impact

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Hello all

I have summarised some excessive detail in this section. I have cut information already in this article (for example most of the information on the impact of the Revolution on the Church) or the article Influence of the French Revolution. I have removed unsourced content. As most of the content was about the short-term impact of the Revolution on other countries, I have changed the heading to Impact. I think there is a good argument for removing most of the remaining detail and retaining just a few general observations made by historians. One concern is that there is no way of separating the impact of the revolution of 1789-99 from the long-term impact of the Napoleonic era (which was arguably greater). As it is, the section is an invitation for people to write potted histories of every country in the world since 1789.

Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:08, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

One of the long term impacts is that Liberté, égalité, fraternité has the origin in the French Revolution. I suggest that this should be linked here. Zukunft (talk) 09:50, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, you're welcome to to link it. WP:BB —GoldRingChip 12:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 March 2024

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There are multiple cases in the article where the revolutionary political figure Antoine Barnave's name is mispelled as "Bernave" and action should be taken to rectify these mistakes. By using the text-search tool and entering in "Bernave" you will find these 2 errors. Sarffgadau (talk) 19:49, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Jamedeus (talk) 19:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 April 2024

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Impact: North America The French Revolution had profound effects on the people of San Domingo, modern-day Haiti. The French Revolution served as a guideline and proof a revolution could take place to rework social balance, as well as a massive inspiration to the revolutionaries on the island. White slave owners in San Domingo were terrified of the idea of a slave revolt. This led to a splitting of the island into Patriots and Loyalists. Ultimately tensions would boil to the point of an outright rebellion which would prove effective as the world's only successful slave revolt. [1] JohnOverton1 (talk) 05:20, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is discussed at length in the section on Slavery and the Colonies. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 05:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Benot, Y. “In the Antilles, `Liberty for All.’.” UNESCO Courier 42, no. 6 (June 1989): 18. https://search-ebscohost-com.spot.lib.auburn.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=8908210179&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Semi-protected edit request on 8 May 2024

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can i edit 24.194.201.151 (talk) 18:25, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Jamedeus (talk) 19:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 16 June 2024

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Fix typo. Change the heading "Crisis of theAncien Régime" to "Crisis of the Ancien Régime". 109.255.93.165 (talk) 20:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: There is no such typo. The wikitext is "Crisis of the ''Ancien Régime''". Is there a problem with your browser? Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 20:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This seems to be a markup problem in some browsers that's being resolved at source. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Section_headings_with_links. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 07:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 October 2024

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Change “Over 72,00 slaves were still in revolt, mostly in the north.” to “Over 72,000 slaves were still in revolt, mostly in the north.”

There is a missing “0” in the section, specifically in citation 196, under “Slavery and the colonies”. 170.244.198.174 (talk) 14:51, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done PianoDan (talk) 16:43, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

national assembly representance and goals

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I've found the diffs from @Goszei to @Aemilius Adolphin interesting. In particulare the phrase The Assembly largely represented the bourgeoisie, who hoped to usher in a property-owning democracy. is very interesting. It is a shame that the body doesn't develop this adequatelly, since this have been such a major topic over the centuries. From the requirement to get into the National Assembly, to the actual repartitions of professions on it, to how the property penalties contributed to the end of Robespierre etc

I don't have the time to do the work right now on the body, but I'll open this discussion just in case I will be able to later, or someone else watching the page might want to chip in. Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 14:30, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some may argue that the specific phrasing of a "bourgeois revolution" is a Marxist one since he made it famous, but I don't think that stating the revolution was the point in France where the middle classes (the bourgeoisie) gained supremacy over the nobility and ended feudalism is at all historically controversial. Alexis de Tocqueville and others argued for the same view in The Old Regime and the Revolution. The historiography section of this article is rather muddled and missing these major viewpoints, and could use improvement before we add it to the lead. — Goszei (talk) 17:24, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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