The main starting point of this master's thesis is that societal evolution and revolution are two basic models of societal movement in the French Revolution. Accordingly, in the introduction of the thesis itself, a framework for their general relationship is given and the way they should be investigated explained. The French Revolution was then presented as a series of segmented phases of societal micro - evolutions and revolutions which together form a wider change that it as a whole represents. The progression and changes of philosophical thoughts that preceded it, the unsustainability of economic determinants of society in a time of severe crisis in which it found itself, and the wider social and political struggles of newly established, previously marginalized or non - existent, and ruling societal structures, together indicate the importance of accumulation of revolutionary factors in setting a new societal evolution. In the battle for the dominant discourse in the society of the French Revolution, the importance that the old societal system has in it, through the actions of the counter - revolution, is shown, as well as how it conducts itself in regards to the new, pretending systems. Due to the argument that changes in society largely come by man - made actions, this thesis also provides an overview of the two models, and the media, representing those actions in the context of societal evolution and revolution. This is done through the explanations of functions which, in such circumstances, broader masses and individuals in society have. Over the period of the Constituent Assembly after the fall of the aristocratic organization of society and the Revolutionary Government which conducted policy as a terror of one mindset, are presented two societal and political phases of the French Revolution in order to obtain knowledge about the role and importance of compromising and uncompromising revolutionary action. At the same time bringing, in developing part of the thesis, a widely linked chronological and thematic platform of the course and nature of the then developments and changes, the conclusion of this thesis highlights the inseparability and the influences between various stages and structures of societal change. The French Revolution is in fact, as an example of the relationship between societal evolution and revolution, an example from which wider knowledge about the conduct of human history in general can be drawn.