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This is perhaps going off-topic, though I think that it is related somehow - maybe.

I don't know much about the English form of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, or it's role in the French Revolution, but it would make sense that as the revolution against Catholicism in England preceded that of the French Revolution, and the French Revolution was, of course,  primarily an attack on the Church, rather than being about "liberating the downtrodden" in France, as is generally believed by the world today, that the two events may be connected, and facilitated by Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ.

According to Hilaire Belloc, the reason that the English Monarchy lost its power was because the landowner elites worked their way into the English parliament, and became so powerful that they began to have more influence than the Monarchy. The power of the landowning elite in England happened after the English Reformation, in which, according to Belloc, the English government took over all of the property that had been owned by the Catholic Church (roughly a third of the land in England).

There were certain landowning families in England who petitioned the government to give them, or to sell for cheap, most of the property formerly owned by the Church, which the English government unfortunately consented to do. Thus, after acquiring large tracts of land, these families (who were not Catholic of course) became very powerful, and they basically took over and became a ruling elite, not only because they were wealthy landowners, but because they were members of parliament also. This is how the Catholic way of life in England came to an end, and with it came an end to private ownership of land for many of the English. And it was the beginning of the influence end for the English Monarchy too, but maybe that's not such a bad thing, since the monarchy has not been Catholic for a very long time.

Belloc describes this scenario in his book, "The Servile State."

I should read Belloc.  As I understand it, Henry VIII seized Church Property and, as you described, it wound up in the hands of a new elite, who eventually took control of England and reduced The Monarchy to a figure head.  I think the last fully legitimate King of England was Richard II, who was probably murdered by his cousin, who took The Throne by force and after that, it was up for grabs.  Of course, power finally ended up with an elite who had no legitimacy at all.  Wow, that sounds like the type of thinking that would produce things like birth control, easy divorce and gender reassignment therapies.  Totally unnatural and completely devoid of legitimacy.  A materialistic and superificial culture, where everything is bogus, including ISS and NASA.  

In any case, as I understand it, revolutionary ideas were spread in France by Masonry, which had become as described, a society that promoted Equality of Religions, which of course, is a virulently Anti-Catholic belief.  Of course, you've got to be careful where you say that or The PC Police might get you!