France (and particularly the 1789 and 1848 revolutions) is pretty much the first example people making that claim point to. (Though I suppose you can make a case that the 1848 revolution worked, it just faced an extended counterrevolutionary setback in the form of the Second Empire.)
> Also, we haven't exactly been paying tea tax to Britain for the last 230-odd years either, for that matter.
Regional separatist movements are a different thing than revolutions, even if one of the latter gets named as if it were the former.
I suspect the French would disagree.
Also, we haven't exactly been paying tea tax to Britain for the last 230-odd years either, for that matter.