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I'd agree with you tbh.

I think you would almost certainly have earlier parliamentary reform, with consequences we can only guess at. Possibly absolutism on the continent might have been forced into the dustbin of history earlier than it was.
 
I'd agree with you tbh.

I think you would almost certainly have earlier parliamentary reform, with consequences we can only guess at. Possibly absolutism on the continent might have been forced into the dustbin of history earlier than it was.

On the other hand, the French Revolutionary ideals were what spelled the end for absolutism in the continent IIRC. Denmark (the only one I can readily think of, there were more) was absolutist before the Revolution... so without the French revolution and the propagation of republicanism, and individual freedom, etc, in some places absolutism is going to stay a lot longer.
 
On the other hand, the French Revolutionary ideals were what spelled the end for absolutism in the continent IIRC.

Actually, my impression was that, like in Britain, the revolution probably retarded reform by associating it with violence and social upheval.
 
and massacred rioters without restraint.

This is sort of rubbish.

The rest is true however.

Did the revolution delay reform?

Tricky. On the one hand it, and the disurption caused by war, clearly encouraged reaction. On the other hand it showed the alternative to reform.

It is notable by what a massive majority Pitt's parliamentary reform bill went down. Without the disruption I wonder if there would have been such a shift in opinion a generation later.
 
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