Very interesting. I'm not libertarian, but that is pretty good critique. Liberty in the Rousseau-Robespierre vein is not really what most of us would call liberty at all*. I think that the revolution just spiralled out of control as it started having too utopian goals. How did they get from declaring freedom in politics, religion, press etc to the point where they were they thought it was government's job to reform human character, by force?

I'm not a Marie Antoinette fangirl, I criticise any utopianism that causes high body count.

*But if I remember right, one version of "liberty" the philosophers have come up with has been freedom from both tyranny of kings and your own selfish needs (of prosperity, status)- therefore absolute liberty would be willing submission to the service of your nation. Great stuff, in theory, that is...