Bingo. The French Revolution was extraordinarily different from the American. All the shouts of Liberte! Fraternite! Egalite! in the world won’t change the totalitarian nature of the French Revolution, and the fact that it led directly to Napoleon, Marx, and the 20th Century Communists.
Yeah, it was. Too bad some of our Founding Fathers such as Thomas Paine, to some extent Benjamin Franklin, and even Thomas Jefferson actually praised the French Revolution, even AFTER the horrific elements of that revolution came to light. Thank goodness Jefferson was NOT part of the Constitutional drafters when it was rewritten, or he would have ensured America met the exact same fate as France. In fact, according to Liberty The God that Failed, Jefferson actually managed to potentially rival Obama in regards to being a big government ogre.
People mentioned Saint Bartholomew’s Day, but the thing is, that was an accident. We only had bell towers to go by, and due to a very poor sense of communication, what was intended to just be a means to drive out Huguenauts ended up going far more than intended. When the Pope learned the full details of what happened, the same pope who ordered for it in the first place, he was devastated by the immense loss of life.