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Date	Process	Result
October 17, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
October 22, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
June 14, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
October 25, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on June 20, 2007.
Current status: Former good article nominee

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Section size for French Revolution (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,634	3,634
Causes	3,068	3,068
Crisis of the Ancien Régime	235	8,902
Financial and political crisis	3,970	3,970
Estates-General of 1789	4,697	4,697
Constitutional monarchy (July 1789 – September 1792)	61	22,602
Abolition of the Ancien Régime	4,150	4,150
Creating a new constitution	3,632	3,632
Catholic Church	3,350	3,350
Political divisions	3,478	3,478
Varennes and after	3,151	3,151
Fall of the monarchy	4,780	4,780
First Republic (1792–1795)	35	19,191
Proclamation of the First Republic	3,576	3,576
Political crisis and fall of the Girondins	4,253	4,253
Reign of Terror	7,658	7,658
Thermidorian reaction	3,669	3,669
French Directory (1795–1799)	5,535	5,535
Role of ideology	4,440	4,440
French Revolutionary Wars	5,371	5,371
Slavery and the colonies	5,961	5,961
Media and symbolism	71	6,757
Newspapers	1,807	1,807
Revolutionary symbols	613	4,879
La Marseillaise	1,714	1,714
Guillotine	1,440	1,440
Cockade, tricolore, and liberty cap	1,112	1,112
Role of women	2,237	3,469
Prominent women	1,232	1,232
Economic policies	1,891	1,891
Impact	927	14,228
France	4,386	4,386
Europe outside France	6,631	6,631
North America	2,284	2,284
Historiography	4,955	4,955
See also	528	528
Notes	26	26
References	35	27,714
Sources	27,679	27,679
Further reading	11,199	11,199
External links	2,940	2,940
Total	152,411	152,411

Semi-protected edit request on 11 January 2025

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Change slaves to enslaved people. AlexanderRayne (talk) 19:30, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Remsense ‥ 论 21:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the shift from the National Assembly to the Constituent Assembly not clear?

Is this a deliberate choice or an oversight. It is not clear what the difference between the national assembly, Constituent assembly and legislative assembly, Perhaps this is too general but given that this is the main article I think it is is somewhat important to at least mention this fact. Chefs-kiss (talk) 15:51, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. I have added the date the National Constituent Assembly was created to the section Creating a constitution. The creation of the Legislative Assembly is discussed in the section Varennes and after. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 06:54, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Recent changes to the lead

Hello all

I have corrected some repetitions and incorrect information that has crept into the lead. For a start, the lead is supposed to be a concise summary of the article so there is no need to say twice that the revolution ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire and the establishment of the consulate with Napoleon as first consul. Once is enough. Second, the Declaration of the Rights of Man was not based on the principles of Liberty, egalite and fraternité. That slogan was first enunciated years later. Also the consulate did not end the Republic; the Consulate was a Republican government and France was still a Republic up to 1807. The lead isn't perfect by any means but I think we should discuss proposed changes on Talk and try to gain consensus for them so that obvious errors don't creep in. Most people only read the lead so it should be a showcase of accuracy and neutrality. I am also concerned that the body of the article has too much editorialising and sweeping generalisations based on scholarship from the 1960s and 1980s. I will try to update some of it it with more recent scholarship over the coming weeks and would welcome the assistasnce of other editors in doing so.

Happy to discuss Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 05:14, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 12 March 2025

§Constitutional Monarchy, paragraph 2. Please remove superfluous words, "attacking the". NESMRTNOST (talk) 13:32, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for pointing that out. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:27, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect execution date for Carrier

The sentence suggesting Jean-Baptiste Carrier was executed on 24 March 1794 with Hébert is inaccurate. Carrier was executed on 16 December 1794, months after Robespierre’s fall. Suggest correction.

Hi, just wanted to point out that the article says Jean-Baptiste Carrier was executed on 24 March 1794 with Hébert and 19 others. This is incorrect — Carrier was not executed until 16 December 1794, several months after Robespierre’s fall. Please consider correcting that sentence. Sources: Carrier Wikipedia article. Thanks! Yahsyahaha (talk) 06:59, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out. The cited source didn't say this and I have made the change. The entire article needs a reference check and re-write from start to finish. I hope to start on this in the near future. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 08:01, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]