The French Revolution only led to government instability, large numbers of deaths, and essentially a return to the status quo.

Death is a horrible price for anything. When a mass loss of life occurs, and there is nothing to show for it, it is even worse. The French Revolution was not worth all of the death, war, and destruction. Had the French achieved a major change for the better, all of those lives would not have been lost in vain. The French Revolution only led to government instability, large numbers of deaths, and essentially a …

…than the one you started with." If you take this statement and apply it to the French Revolution, then the Revolution was a failure. The final peace was worse than the one the French started with. Had the French succeeded with creating the government they intended to, then it would have been a success, but they ended up with a system that was worse than the one they started with, so they definitely had failed.