Louis XVI’s execution at the Place de la Revolution in 1793. Without Louis XVI lending his support to the Americans during the War for Independence, America probably never would have been founded. Ironically, the King’s support for the Revolution eventually inspired his own people to rise up against him with their own bloody revolution. The French Revolution brought the world into the Modern Era and spelled the end for political absolutism. Not only did it doom the concept of monarchy, but it also put the Catholic Church on the fast-track to global irrelevance in terms of political affairs. Thanks to the French Revolution, the idea of a populist uprising was spread amongst Europe and all over the world, which, arguably, ended up inspiring the Russian Revolution in 1917 where its result, as we all know, defined the 20th century. Everything that we can give credit to, good or bad, in the modern world, comes from January 21, 1793. Sometimes I wonder how different things would be if Louis XVI decided not to stick it to the British by supporting America and sending great generals like Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette to the new world. Would Constitutional Monarchy still have been a popular political order? Would the ideas of Socialism and Republicanism ever come to light? Who knows. It’s just food for thought. 
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Louis XVI’s execution at the Place de la Revolution in 1793.

Without Louis XVI lending his support to the Americans during the War for Independence, America probably never would have been founded. Ironically, the King’s support for the Revolution eventually inspired his own people to rise up against him with their own bloody revolution. The French Revolution brought the world into the Modern Era and spelled the end for political absolutism. Not only did it doom the concept of monarchy, but it also put the Catholic Church on the fast-track to global irrelevance in terms of political affairs. Thanks to the French Revolution, the idea of a populist uprising was spread amongst Europe and all over the world, which, arguably, ended up inspiring the Russian Revolution in 1917 where its result, as we all know, defined the 20th century. Everything that we can give credit to, good or bad, in the modern world, comes from January 21, 1793. 

Sometimes I wonder how different things would be if Louis XVI decided not to stick it to the British by supporting America and sending great generals like Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette to the new world. Would Constitutional Monarchy still have been a popular political order? Would the ideas of Socialism and Republicanism ever come to light? Who knows. It’s just food for thought. 

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