And when he was declared first Consul of France, Napoleon proclaimed, Citizens, the Revolution is established on the principles with which it began. It is over. By which he presumably meant that France's government had gone all the way from here to here to here. As with the American Revolution, it's easy to conclude that France's revolution wasn't all that revolutionary. I mean, Napoleon was basically an emperor and in some ways he was even more of an absolute monarch than Louis XVI had been. Gradually, the nobles came back to France, although they had mostly lost their special privileges. The Catholic Church returned too, although much weaker because it had lost land and the ability to collect tithes.