The French revolution wasn't a tragic event until it failed, but a liberating one. One can say that the path from 1789 to 1793 was taken because after 1789 the revolutionary France wasn't leftwing enough, as it continued those policies that most raised the ire of the common people during the last years of the monarchy.

Bourgeois and priests complained about the aristocracy's low taxes, but for manual labourers in towns and countryside alike shorter working days, but especially higher wages and control of the price of food were essential demands. Instead they got the former and new governments' liberal free trade combined with attempts to keep down the wages at the same time as the price of food often rose at very high levels.

It's something that new and old elites hadn't learned by 1848 nor have they learned it now. Combine neoliberal, to the normal people regressive, economic measures with diminishing or endangered income for normal people and you get resistance and revolutions.

The elites just don't understand that they can push people too far and that at some point passivity is replaced with explosive anger.