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What effect did the american revoultion have on france in the years shortly after the war

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For France, the American Revolution implied a significant expenditure and the worsening of the crisis of the former regime. Six years after the American Revolution concluded, the French Revolution erupted in 1789, France was immerse in a profound economical and social crisis. Since France helped America economically and militarily during the American Revolution, it became insolvent; in other words, The American Revolution conducted France into a massive fiscal crisis, factor that was relevant in the French Revolution.

Also, the American Revolution's ideas of liberty and self- government inspired the French citizens and encouraged them to rebelled against the monarchy, due to the fact that by the time they were starving, insolvent and under a repressive ruler. French citizens saw Americana as an example to follow; the Americans imparted a working model of revolutionary success that the French adapted to their needs and context. French revolutionaries established constitutional measures in the French Revolution quite early, they also passed The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, and forced for a reformed monarchy.

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