How is the French Revolution similar to John
locke state of nature

The French Revolution was inspired by the philosophies of Locke and Rousseau. From Locke, an English philosopher who lived until 1704, came the ideas of empiricism, epistemology and the Social Contract. Jean Jacques Rousseau was the inspiration behind conservative, liberal and socialist theory.

Explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”