According to Professor Norman Gash, in 1789 France was the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful state in Western Europe.
Gash points out that in France, in 1789, "the climate of opinion was rational, liberal, and optimistic, the monarchy not averse to reform, the aristocracy itself permeated by ideas of the Enlightenment."
Reflections on the revolution - French Revolution
As a result of the French Revolution, Napoleon came to power.
Napoleon was a fascist.
He attempted the total military domination of continental Europe.
He tried to have a New World Order, or as Gash writes "a new international order".
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