What was the impact of the French Revolution on the world?

What was the impact of the French Revolution on the world?

Ans.

(i) It was the first national movement that adopted the ideals of “liberty, equality and fraternity*. These ideals became the basic tenets of democracy for every nation in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.

(ii) The Revolution espoused the cause of the masses, sought to abolish the idea of divine right, feudal privileges, slavery and censorship, and upheld merit as the basis for social up-gradation.

(iii) These tenets are important even in the contemporary world for their emphasis on equality and a world free from prejudice.

(iv) Feudal system and later, colonization were abolished by reworking the French Revolution ideals of freedom and equality.