(i) The French Revolution created a sense of collective identity amongst the French people. The ideas of la patrie (the motherland) and le citoyen (the citizen) emphasised the notion of a united community enjoying equal rights under a Constitution.
(ii) The Estates General was elected by the body of active citizens and renamed the National Assembly.
(iii) A centralised administrative system was put in place and it formulated uniform laws for all citizens within its territory.
(iv) Internal customs duties and dues were abolished and a uniform system of weights and measures was adopted.
(v) Regional dialects were discouraged and French became the common language of the entire nation. In nutshell, we can associate the following values with the French Revolution:
(i) Nationalism (ii) Equality (iii) Fraternity (iv) National integration (v) Solidarity.
