Yet what you adduce is not anything typical of France, certainly not during the American Revolution. As detailed in Justin Buckley Dyers' recent book(
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics") many of the Founders considered it a miracle because that was the last thing anyone expected from France. and even during the French Revolution , not long after, they were murdering women and children in cold blood in the Vendee Solzhenitsyn considered one history's great atrocities
The fight for control of the Vendée lasted three years and produced violence and mass killing that left the Parisian Terror in its wake. Sorokin suggests a conservative death toll of 58,000 but the real loss of life in the Vendée in 1793-96 may well be closer to 200,000. Many were women and children