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How did ideas impact the French Revolution, according to Mathies. Why did the

middle class, rather than the working class, drive the Revolution?

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In The French Revolution, historian Albert Mathiez claimed that leadership fell to the middle class because of what those people knew about Enlightenment ideas. ... The working classes were incapable of starting or controlling the Revolution.

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