Was the French Revolution worth the Human Cost?

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Was the French Revolution worth the Human Cost?
The French Revolution is without question one of the most important events in the history of Western Civilization. It can be viewed, in fact, as the event that brought an end to centuries of monarchy and feudalism in Europe. And although the French Revolution ultimately led to the emergence of democracy in France, this was no ordinary war. Not only did King Louis XVI and the queen lose their lives on the guillotine, but thousands of French citizens would also be brutally murdered during the infamous Reign of Terror. Even to this day, historians and scholars are still trying to answer the question of whether the French Revolution was worth the human cost. And by comparing and contrasting the...

.....s because violence became the Revolution itself. One can argue, moreover, that democracy could have come to France without the calculated Terror and atrocities perpetrated by the revolutionaries who believe that the end justified the means. Thus, in the final comment, it is hard to argue that the French Revolution was worth the human cost.
End Notes
1 Joseph Mitchell and Helen Buss Mitchell. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in World Civilizations, (Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000), 256.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid, 258.
4 Ibid, 265.
5 Ibid, 259.
6 Ibid, 267.
7 Ibid, 260.
8 Ibid, 267.
Bibliography
Mitchell, Joseph and Helen Buss Mitchell. Taking Sides: Clashing
Views on Controversial Issues in World Civilizations. Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000.