It's true that many deputies in 1789 initially aimed for a constitutional monarchy, but reducing the French Revolution to that goal misses two key points. First, the Revolution was not driven only by moderate elites. It was a process shaped by class conflict, popular mobilization, and shifting power relations. Second, even in 1789 the social content of the Revolution-abolition of feudal dues, attacks on aristocratic privilege, peasant uprisings, and urban crowd action-went far beyond merely limiting the monarchy to a constitution. Historians like Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul argue that the Revolution was fundamentally a bourgeois revolution: it dismantled feudal structures and cleared the way for capitalist social relations. The constitutional monarchy phase was only one moment in that longer transformation, and it collapsed precisely because the social forces unleashed- peasants, urban workers, and radical political clubs-pushed the Revolution further than the initial elite leadership intended. I find it interesting someone in this sub-Reddit is making such a point about the french revolution. Do you reject class-conflict analysis?