The French Revolution is the name given to the revolutionary cycle that took place in France between 1789 and 1799 that marked the end of absolutism in that country. This revolution, in addition to its bourgeois character, had a large popular participation and reached a high degree of radicalism, since the situation of the French people was precarious due to the crisis facing the country.
The French Revolution was a milestone in the history of humanity because it inaugurated a process that led to the universalization of social rights and individual freedoms from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. This revolution also paved the way for the consolidation of a republican system based on popular representation, today called representative democracy. The French Revolution was only possible thanks to the popularization of the ideals of the Enlightenment.