Because “the revolution” to the French is not the on in 1776. Nor is it “the revolution” for most of the world. The French Revolution was the big one.

Americans and Europeans shit on the French over WW2 with little regard to the damage done to human life in France during WW1. There are still uninhabitable zones in France from the world military poisoning swathes of land in WW1 with shells, mines, munitions and corpses.