Mapinduzi ya Ufaransa

Mapinduzi ya Ufaransa (kwa Kifaransa: Révolution française) ni jina linalojumlisha matukio muhimu ya siasa kwa kipindi cha miaka 10, tangu 1789 hadi 1799, yaliyobadilisha uso wa Ufaransa na utamaduni wa Ulaya kwa jumla, kiasi cha kuhesabiwa kati ya matukio makuu ya historia yote.^[1][2][3]

Kupitia vita mbalimbali vilivyofuata katika sehemu mbalimbali za dunia,^[4] athira zake zilieneza kote duniani fikra za haki za binadamu, uhuru na maendeleo zilizotetewa na Falsafa ya Mwangaza.^[5]

Dhana ya kuwa mamlaka juu ya dola ni haki ya raia wote, si ya wafalme wala watawala wengine,^[6] imeenea polepole pande zote za dunia.^[7]

Pamoja na hayo, mapinduzi na matukio yaliyofuatwa yalisambaza mtazamo hasi kuhusu dini, huhusan Ukristo na Kanisa Katoliki, kwa kudai akili ishike nafasi ya imani pia.

1. ↑ Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey, The French Revolution (2004), Foreword.
2. ↑ R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton, A History of the Modern World (5th ed. 1978), p. 341
3. ↑ Ferenc Fehér, The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity, (1990) pp. 117-30
4. ↑ Bell, David Avrom (2007). The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. uk. 51. ISBN 0-618-34965-0.
5. ↑ Suzanne Desan et al. eds. The French Revolution in Global Perspective (2013) , pp. 3, 8, 10
6. ↑ Livesey, James. Making Democracy in the French Revolution p. 19 The Revolution created and elaborated...the ideal of democracy, which forms the creative tension with the notion of sovereignty that informs the functioning of modern democratic liberal states. This was the truly original contribution of the Revolution to modern political culture.
7. ↑ Palmer, R.R. & Colton, Joel A History of the Modern World p. 361