Question

Help me with this question pls “Why did the French Revolution slip back from its original enlightened ideas and move towards authoritarian regimes.”

Answer 1

The struggle for power among the revolutionary factions like Cordeliers and Girodins caused the French Revolution to slip back from its original ideas  and move towards authoritarian regime. These groups in order to gain power and establish their respective ideologies killed and persecuted thousands of people. They carried some outlandish policies like reorganizing Calendar and establishing a church called Cult of Reason. They didn't establish democratic principles and institutions and failed to control and uphold public safety. Later we see Napoleon become the dictator of France and began to fallow expansionist policies. So we see French Revolution was a transition from one authoritarian regime to another authoritarian regime.