What is It?
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The year of 1989 is the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. In celebration, the French government is throwing it's biggest party in at least 100 years, to last all year. In theUnited States , an American committee on the French Revolution has been set up to coordinate programs on this side of the Atlantic, emphasizing the theme, "France and America: partners in Liberty."
Many Frenchmen are troubled about celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution for the simple fact that it had ended so violently.
French author Leon Daudet has written,:"Commemorate the French Revolution? That's like celebrating the day you got scarlet fever." An Anti-89 Movement has begun to sell mementos reminding today's Frenchmen of the excesses of the Revolution , including Royalist black arm bands and calendars that mock the sacred dates of the French Revolution.
The French should indeed be uneasy about their Revolution because the American Revolution brought forth a relatively free economy and limited government, the French Revolution, however, brought forth first anarchy, then dictatorship.
Source: http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/8908pete.htm
-Rousseau,Jean-Jacques-
Rousseau's ideas affected much of the ideology of the French Revolution.
