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Yes there is the obvious zeal of nationalism, the revolutionary use of levee en masse and the personal genius of Napoleon.

But was that all there was? France have just lost a war against Britain barely 25 years before 1789, how was France able to achieve European hegemony during the pre-1812 to such a degree so quickly when the ancien regime failed at it for centuries (closet they got was LouisXIV)?
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