Revolutionary Leaders The effects of the French Revolution were far reaching in terms of both place and time. The political revolution evolved and changed government like a geological palatial shift changes landscape dramatically and violently. Leaders of the revolution rose and fell radically, all influencing this new ideal. Not only one of the greatest military leaders in history, but one of the greatest political and social leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte best personifies the ideals of the entire French Revolution in contrast to Maximilien Robespierre who provided a dramatic extreme in the overall purpose of change. Robespierre was completely polar towards the extreme revolutionaries. Th