Dude, who even knows.
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I remember a few years ago when there was a fluff cause the Assassins Creed: French Revolution had a fairly standard Anglophone narrative of “yeah, this was a sequence of guys running their own plots taking advantage of the situation the last guys created”, where unrest is co-opted by a variety of leaders who fall to bickering, division, fanaticism, and Terror, creating an opening for Napoleon Bonaparte to apply the modernizing ideas that allowed him to extract much more power given the same fundaments as anyone else.
And this offended the French, who are taught to understand it holistically as an obvious sequence of progression in the working out of the French people, protagonists of civilization, in inventing liberal nationalism.
(Following the Anglophone over the Francophone narrative being invested with further significance because the developers were Québécois)
Don’t have any further thoughts on that, just remembering it.
Well also there was the part that suggested that at a deeper level the Revolution was promoted by the same forces that had been behind ancien regimes all along because they saw that said liberal nationalism, acting through the “will of the people”, was actually a better mechanism for elite puppetmasters to exercise control of society than feudal monarchy
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