Synthesis

The three French Revolutions are an example of the way that rule by only liberals and rule by only conservatives cannot work. In each revolution, it began with a conservative king - Louis XVI, Charles X, or Louis Philippe - and ended with the declaration of some form of liberal government, whether it was the Assembly, a constitutional monarch, or a republic. However, none of these systems were, at this point in time in French history, stable. The country was too polarized between liberals and conservatives, with conservatives wanting monarchies and liberals wanting some form of republic, and because of this the only system it could sustain was dictatorship, by both Napoleons.