The French Revolution

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dissatisfaction of groups such as the Jacobins toward the constitutional monarchy. These groups were interested in forming a republic, allowing for more radical reformation at the hands of the people. The Jocobins themselves soon became divided, however, between the Girondists, who wanted a representative and more conservative republic, and the Mountain, who wanted a more direct repuplican government and who worked with the sans-culottes to achieve their goals. The sans- culottes were influential because they were comprised of the masses and wanted immediate economic reform. In the Terror they served as an important catalyst in speeding and influencing the government through their terrorism and rioting.
Although the French Revolution's motto was "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," It failed to include the rights of women and disregarded the non-property owning class in participation in the ...

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