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Originally Posted by Astromancer
But the real point is, each man forced lasting changes. They won, the Jacobins were losers. Heck present day French polotical culture owes as much to the American and British revolutions as to its own.
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I don't know about that last bit. The Jacobins implemented radical secularism/laicite (insert accent aigu), reordered the provinces, centralized the gov't to a greater extent than ever the kings had done, and generally changed France a lot. Later attempts to roll all that back were only partially successful.
I think we also have to consider Jacobin influences in America and Britain.
All-in-all, they were important.
Evil, of course, but important.