Some retard is gonna come in here with some Barruel 'muh illuminati freemason jewish protestant conspiracy to overthrow civilization' shit, ignore them.

No, it wasn't planned, but a lot of people and political/ideological forces that had been waiting a long time to put their ideas and philosophies into practice seized upon the public discontent to carry out a lot of social experiments (with varying degrees of success).

The counter-revolution didn't so much fail as fizzle out and compromise. The Republican government came down from the zenith of its radicalism, chilled out a little bit and said 'okay we'll stop burning down your churches and killing your priests and putting statues of reason everywhere if you stop rebelling'. The insurgents for the most part accepted the compromise and hung up their arms. A few diehards held out and things flared up again for a brief time when Napoleon staged his Hundred Days, but that was about it.

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>>1364110

No. It was retardation on the royalty and nobles part.

They bankrupted France with the intervention in the American Revolution and the nobles didn't want to pay for it so they taxes the lower classes into oblivion.

Then when farming failures happened it just made everyone mad so they killed the king etc and all that jazz.

Lesson learned. If France kept to itself it would still have a king today.

>>1364143
The revolution was about social change, about tearing down the ancien regime and ending serfdom. The power of the Church and nobles was broken beyond repair, there was a constitution, and representative government.

The Orleans and Bourbon monarchies that emerged from the ashes of Napoleon's defeat never tried to reestablish the old ways, the revolution had swept them away forever.

>>1364466
While the French political system was enormously outdated and unable to reform by 1789, serfdom didn't really exist anymore.