For this Discussion, answer ONE of the instructor-provided questions:
- The French revolutionaries claimed that they were inspired by the Enlightenment philosophes. Would the philosophes we studied back in Week 2 have approved of how the Revolution started? What about how it developed through the 1790s?
- In his Reflections on the Revolutions in France, British member of Parliament Edmund Burke predicted the Terror. Was this a lucky guess on his part or were the seeds of of the Terror part of the Revolution from the beginning? Why?
- The motto of the Revolution was “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” How well or badly does the Revolution embody each of these concepts?
- The historian Owen Connelly claims that Napoleon “has become a legendary hero with worldwide appeal.” Does he deserve to be called a hero? Why or why not?.