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FRENCHREVS

The sheer quantity of
political turmoil that
France went through in              It's easy to lose count
a small number of                   of the number of changes
years around the start              in government:
of the 1800s is just
amazing...                            Louis XVI      1774 - 1791
                                      Revolution     1789 - 1799
   Some people think of               Directory      1795 - 1799
   modern times as fast               Napoleon       1799 - 1814
   moving and chaotic,                Louis XVIII    1814 - 1815
   but the 25 years of                Napoleon       1815 - 1815
   France around the time             Louis XVIII    1815 - 1824
   of the revolution
   beats anything the                     1815 - 1791 = 24 years
   modern world has seen.



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