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June 96: What grounds were there for the fears of those who, in the years 1789-1799, believed that revolution would spread beyond the frontiers of France to the rest of the Continental Europe?

Since the French Revolution started in 1789, what the French revolutionary had achieved from constitutional monarchy in 1789 to open republican government in September 1792 was strongly acting against the interests of the European rulers especially regarding the 3 principles of the revolution (liberty, equality and fraternity) which began to spread beyond the frontiers of France and posed a serious threat to those European countries as they were still in the practiced of the Ancien Regime.

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By the Declaration of the Right of Man, new ideas were put forward; everyone were born equal before the law which was contradict with the European powers who still practiced the hereditary hierarchy of status and it proclaimed of France ruled by its own people posed a strong opposition to the despotism rule of the European rulers. It was this sovereignty of the people, that had created a strong feeling of patriotism and it was further strengthened by the ‘levee en masse’ (the whole population of France was brought into permanent requisition for the defence of the country) ...

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