>>794067France obviously has the central place in philosophical and intellectual tradition to this day, the modern world is founded on french enlightenment philosophy, democracy, republic, nationalism, right, left, all arose from the French revolution, none of these terms had the same or even a meaning before it.
Right wingers can also thank France for absolute monnarchism as a define political and ideological position, racialism by Gobineau, and even for fascism with the Proudhon circle.
In the left, they can thank, well Proudhon for anarchism, even Marx took heavy inspiration from the conspiracy of the equals, and the Paris commune was the greatest success of the left in the Western world.
Even the world's longest civilisation follow the idea of french origin.
And that is not to take that our modern social relations all derive from May 68
The French Revolution was the most important event in human history.