Could the french revolution have been avoided?
In the land of “What If” history, you sure picked a tough one. Yet, I will argue to the negative. The French Revolution was all but inevitable given certain circumstances that would have been darn tough to alter: While Louis XIV was a fairly enlightened and educated monarch…he begat the (then) modern notion of the Divine Right of Kings. The idea that God Himself places certain people on the throne on purpose and to deny that is to deny God. His grandson Louis XVI was the worst form of person to imagine to carry this notion. He ignored his education, thought little of his people, and had little intellegence. Despite the fabulous wealth he flouted while his people starved, his court saw that upholding him as king kept them in their own power. So there were no real people arround him to encourage a lighter touch with the peasants. Also, The American Revolution had taken place with a huge amount of the ideology coming from French thinkers and pamphleteers. So its success was only an enco
