France Before the Revolution and France After the Revolution

The first revolution, if you were to call it that, the 1789, what did it actually achieve? And in the short term, there was a measure of democracy and the more people had the votes. Slavery was briefly abolished but then made legal again. Women had not got the vote. They still had almost no rights whatsoever right through the 19th century because of it. All that happened was that the first revolution created this vacuum into which Napoleon stepped. He took over the country, became a dictator, got himself named Emperor.