Plato makes a prediction of the French Revolution. He explains that a state will decline from a aristocracy into a full circle that then returns to the absolute power of a tyranny. But between both, there will be timocracy, oligarchy, and democracy governments that will get replaced with others. In other words, this will be happening over and over again. In the French Revolution this is displayed. In France there was a king, he was Louis XVI. Louis was king from 1791-1792. Later on, he lost the power as a monarch and was condemned to death for all the issues he had and for escaping from jail. A few governments occurred right after Louis XVI, governments that were trying to take control of everything. The government were the following. The National Convention was the government who decided the death of Louis XVI. This government was formed in 1789-1799, and they took power from taking decisions of everything. Another type of government was the Committee of Public Safety which was created in 1793-1794. This group of people took over leadership of all aspects of state and political activity. The Directory was another government in the French Revolution. This government begun in 1795-1799. It was considerable power itself and it was created in reaction to…show more content… Louis XVI was a king that ruled society, which means he was aristocracy. The National Assembly were the government of voting system, they solved every issue by voting, this is timocracy. The Committee of Public Safety was way different. This government were a group of people who wanted to govern France, it was the executive body of France, in other words, society was being ruled by a few people, oligarchy. Now, the Directory was the government who appoint people to fill the other positions. They were a type of democracy. The Consulate was the period of French history, it was the government of France. Napoleon Bonaparte a the next ruler, the absolute ruler, which means