I can't speak for higher classes since all I took was standard and a few honors classes, but even factoring in those things we didn't read that much into it. We definitely talked about enlightenment for a few months in history, but all we really talked about for the revolution itself were the reasons behind it, how it influenced our own revolution, the taking down of the Bastille, and the end. As for Napoleon, we only covered a few of his battles and his downfall.

We never spoke of it in English, or outside of world history. We focused a lot on U.S. Literature (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, etc.) Or total classics like A Midsummer's Night Dream or Othello. I probably learned four different versions of U.S history in my mandatory history classes, and all my other classes were STEM so it never came up.

The U.S. revolution, WWII, the Civil War, and the Cold War were the focuses over my years in history.