The French Revolution The French Revolution was essentially the pivotal culmination of a rising conflict between two opposing conceptions as to the source by which a governing state derived its authority. During the late eighteenth century an ideology accentuating reason, freedom, and the sovereignty of the common man grew in direct opposition to the accepted dogmas of absolutism and divine right of the monarchy. As illustrated within the three aforementioned quotes, the divergent depth between …showed first 75 words of 561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 561 total…authority was a theory never before enacted as that which occurred in constituent with the French Revolution. Ensuing from the conjecture of an isolated monarchy and a revolution of human thought within the people, one may observe here the fundamental endeavor of mankind to rule himself*. Thus the French Revolution and corresponding disposition of mind found within the people act as the foundation for our modern democratic state and fashion the development of Western civilization.