Comment by mishac
7 years ago
It was he French monarchy that helped the Americans, so there really was no ideological affinity.
The revolution in France wasnt until several years after the US war against the British was over.
7 years ago
It was he French monarchy that helped the Americans, so there really was no ideological affinity.
The revolution in France wasnt until several years after the US war against the British was over.
The French monarchy had to be dragged into the war, it was public opinion that, swayed by public campaigns from leading American figures, pushed for intervention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolut...
Much of that same public opinion would then go on to power the French revolution a few years later. Lafayette famously wrote the "Déclaration des droits de l'homme" with Thomas Jefferson's help. Both revolutions had common ideological grounds - Enlightenment and democracy.