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The French Revolution had a positive impact on humanity

I do not want you to be offended, but you are sorely mistaken on the French Revolution. Any serious historian on the subject shows this this was the "first of the worst" disasters to hit the Western "enlightened" World. France, perhaps the most benevolent and free society (after Louis XIV) in Continental Europe was destroyed by the revolution and subsequent Empire setting it back hundreds of years. Here is an excerpt from a recent article written on the subject... https://billrandles.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/casting-off-the-cords-messianic-psalms-pt-8/

The French revolution was the first large-scale atheistic attempt at stripping away the Christian influence from a formerly 'Christian country'. Among other horrors, the king was beheaded, a prostitute was nominated "the goddess of reason" in the Notre Dame cathedral, the working week was artificially reconstructed into a ten day cycle (with only one day of rest), and as much as possible the shackles of Christianity were removed from the French.

The slogan of the revolution, "Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood" soon drowned in rivers of blood that ran down the French streets as the "liberation movement" descended into a chaotic, blood thirsty power struggle that ended in a godless Dictatorship, bent on world conquest.

Behold, in the howling guillotine spectacles, man liberated from his God. The nightmare scenes of crowds roaring their approval as the rich and noble "get their due", the humiliation of the nobility, and the replacement of the old ruling elite by an even crueller and more ruthless 'revolutionary' elite would be played out over and again , in countless locations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Revolutionaries were going to smash the old world and bring in a new, more humane , scientific and enlightened world, after equalizing all outcomes, and banishing "superstitious religion" to the fringes of society, hopefully to fade away into obscurity. This was revolution by atheism and even satanism.

The French Revolution was horrific. Also, the vast majority of the Founding Fathers didn’t support the French Revolution. They refused to help.

Stoking the Fire: Celebrating the Atrocities of the French Revolution
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/25376-stoking-the-fire-celebrating-the-atrocities-of-the-french-revolution

Bastille Day Is Nothing to Celebrate
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/23611-bastille-day-is-nothing-to-celebrate