• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Liberté, égalité, fraternité. The Americans learned it from you lot. Might do them well to remember.

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      5 months ago

      Wasn’t the American revolution like a decade before the French one?

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        5 months ago

        Yep, you’re right. After a quick search, it looks like the American Revolution started in 1765, and the French Revolution started in 1789.

        However, I know French policies and political development had a profound impact on the ideas central to liberal democracies, as it could also be said of American policies and political development.