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The American Origin of the French Revolution

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  • Sebastian Ottinger
  • Lukas Rosenberger

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We show that the French combatants’ exposure to the United States increased support for the French Revolution a decade later. French regions from which more American combatants originated had more revolts against feudal institutions, revolutionary societies, volunteers for the revolutionary army, and emigrants from the Old Regime’s elite. To establish causality, we exploit two historical coincidences: i) originally, a French army of seven and a half thousand was ready to sail, but one-third did not; ii) among those deployed, only some regiments were stationed in New England. Only combatants exposed to New England affected the French Revolution after their return.

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  • Sebastian Ottinger & Lukas Rosenberger, 2024. "The American Origin of the French Revolution," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp774, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    • Handle: RePEc:cer:papers:wp774
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    Keywords

    institutional change; French Revolution; American War of Independence;
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    JEL classification:

    • N4 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government

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