Why did the French people go from hacking noblemen's heads off during the Revolution to trying to conquer Europe under Emperor Napoleon – plain old nationalism?
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All the European countries, particularly England, France and Spain had been at it for centuries before the French Revolution. The Norman Invasion of England in 1066, 700 years earlier is a prime example of French expansionism. It's just that the English, and later the British, were better at it.
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