When did the french really get democracy?

Question

1789 was the French Revolution

then there was Napoleon as Emperor

so when did the french really get democracy?

where the people could vote?

(by the way. Travel should be renamed World Knowledge. Help me spread the word)

Answer 1

Your question is loaded - there are replies - and the best will be for you to study history - and institutional history- that's what lawyers do in France when at school -

Democracy in the sense of french masonry which supported the 1789 revolution was before all the destruction of leading classes - and the settlement of equality, through equal rights to property - hence this was a bourgeois revolution - but working classes did not exist - The deepest benefit of french revolution was a commuting in civil estate owners' class - and this was written as a basic right in the Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme et du citoyen -

Then was asked the question of elections - in the first phase of revolution it was granted and widespread in the country -

Then foreigner Monarchies plotted in order to kill french new democracy - and that is why Napoleon , was chosen as the solution facing a major danger of English, Russian, Austrian kings - Napoleon was a chief general with full powers - comparable to Putin today - he nevertheless did a lot in order to carry on the work of democracy and revolution - and eg created the Code civil, and many major institutions in order to organize power and intelligence and give it to popular gifted young people -

This is one of the major reasons why the anglo-french struggle and rivalry began - England does not forgive us to be a democracy - so if you are british, excuse -me, you make me laugh.

With the defeat of Napoleon, the problem was the Restauration of kings, Louis-philipppe and CharlesX who enabled nobility to come back to France but at the same time did not want to denie the new rights of the 1789 new bourgeois - that's how, under an appearence of democracy, ^popular polls^ were only accessible to voters who could prove that they paid a minimum of taxes -

i could carry on like this very long, but I'd just like to know that

you understand that "democracy" is a word - of which practical aspects can be very variable - asking your question you do not have a doubt that you are kind of tenant of the sense of the word - but for people who look for replies on Yahoo instead of working, I doubt that explanations such as mine are only acceptable -

Brainwashed of all the world unite

Answer 2

Nope, Travel should remain travel, that kind of question is usually found  in History.

Just to answer quickly, the result of 1789 was a universal democracy, how brief it was.

Napoleon's time, and the kings afterwards, were not a democracy. Even if, as said above, people could vote it was only a small portion of the population. 241000 out of a population of 35,5 millions.

Then the second republic came and reinstated universal democracy... for men only. It also abolished entirely slavery which Nappy had reinstated.

Then the second Napoleon took power. Poof, no more universal democracy, 3 millions men lost their right to vote (still no women vote).

Answer 3

The first "modern" democratic regime  can be located in 1871 after the war against the prussian and with the beginning of the third republic.

Answer 4

Dear, do you know a country with REAL democracy?