Why do you think it took France until the 1870's to have a strong democratic
government?

Many things had occurred before that which would devastate the country or make it hard for a democracy to happen. For example, after the American Revolution and the 7 years war, France was severely in debt with an unbalanced system of power. When the French Revolution happened, there was a lot of unrest over what to do about the monarchy and its monarchs, as that's what had been the usual, and many people were in a state of terror and hysteria after all of the executions and the possibility that you could be killed for doing the wrong thing too. All of that bloodshed largely happened under the name of France having more liberty and generally being more democratic. So when public leaders, like Napoleon and then later Louis XVIII and Charles X, took over, it was a welcome change from the violence that took place when they'd tried to be more democratic. This remembrance of the horror of their attempt at democracy/a more representative government possibly led to people being more averse to the idea until much later.

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