For France, most of the impact was in French literature.

First of all the nineteenth century is known for its French literary masterpieces. This period is a remarkable era in the history of French literature, close to us, it is still difficult to understand it. For many historians of literature , the nineteenth century French literature remains that of romanticism , initially with Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo , realism with Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert and naturalism with Émile Zola .

The expansion of romanticism had been caused by the momentous force of freedom initiated by the French Revolution. At first, there was a burst of freedom followed by disorder and instability which caused confusion. The first half of the century reeked with political uncertainty.

In this context, we see the writer with different ideals , expressing his opposition to the political and social order. For others historians instead the French Revolution(+ the Napoleonic era) and the ensuing political turmoil can not fully explain the efflorescence of French romanticism, taking as evidence the previous birth of English and German romanticism in countries that were not shaken by any revolution. Instead they emphasize the influence of exercise study and reading English and German literature by men and women of French letters ( most of them aristocrats and French Royalist who emigrated during the reign of Napoleon ( Madame de Stael for example)

Between 1815 and 1848, Napoleon became established as one of the major sources of inspiration in French poetry. Writers of all kinds– from the greatest poets of the age(Victor Hugo) to lyricists of popular songs or classical musician(For example Beethoven famous: Hymne a la joie) and part-time versifiers – took on the challenge of evoking a figure that came to be presented as the archetypal hero. The most famous french author Victor Hugo was a freethinking republican who considered Napoléon a hero. This same political turmoil will lead Alexis de Tocqueville to write (Democracy in America)

The authors reflect these changes in their work and part of them engage in political camps , progressive ( as Lamartine, Hugo and Zola ) or sometimes reactionary as Maurice Barres, or Léon Daudet ( The Stupid nineteenth century ) . However, they often join to exalt the figure of the artist free against the vulgar and materialistic bourgeois(a product of Napoleonic era and The July monarchy) , creating the myth of the bohemian artist . While the vast majority of writers of the seventeenth century were looking for patrons and protectors, this century is emblematic of a new ethic of truth ( against religious morality under the Restoration or bourgeois morality prevailing in the second Empire).

This ethic is built as part of the struggle for freedom of expression and the emergence of a regime of freedom of the press with greater responsibility for writers : this century is marked by literary trials and imprisonments of writer such Flaubert , Paul- Louis Courier, Pierre- Jean de Beranger ) and famous war of words and fight for public opinion between authors over political matters, the peak of political involvement of french authors in the 19th century will be reach with the famous Dreyfus Affair(1894). After 1894,the impact of the revolution and the napoleonic era will be gone. When France became a strong republican democracy. With new issues that take the public space and a new generation that has not experienced the turbulence of political instability.

Sources in french and english :

Ferber, Michael. 2010. Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction.

Christiansen, Rupert. 1988. Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age, 1780–1830

Maurice Descotes, La Légende de Napoléon et les écrivains français du xixe siècle

Religion napoléonienne, Misset, 1831

This is a great question, but a difficult one to answer since the French Revolution affected just about everything in France (and even in Europe if you want to be generous). Historians like Henry Rousso and François Hartog even point to the French Revolution as a breaking point in the very way in which the French thought about their past. Suddenly, history became punctuated, the articulation of the Revolution making new futures possible.

One of the most immediate ways this "de-connection" with the past made itself evident was in historical novels, which by their very nature, inspire reflections about the evolving, non-static nature of history. Gyorgy Lukacs wrote an excellent book called "The Historical Novel," in which he argued that the Revolution was directly responsible for the works of historical novelists like Walter Scott, Balzac, and Tolstoy, insofar as they present the past as being distinctly different than the present and eschew universalist principles in favor of what Balzac called "local color." Lukacs - and this argument - is also a great example of Marxist literary/historical studies.

What has always surprised me is the lack of novels that use the Revolution as its actual backdrop. Retif de la Bretonne and the Marquis de Sade are good contemporaneous authors that wrote about the Revolution as their present, Balzac's "Les Chouans" and Hugo's "Quatreveingt-treize" are about the royalist uprising that followed the Revolution, but otherwise no major novels are now remembered.

An exception to that is novels that take other 19th century revolutions as their setting. As Dolcester showed so well, the 19th cent was a period of constant revolution: France saw three monarchies, three republics, two Empire and two Communes in the course of 100 years. You might be familiar with Hugo's "Les Miserables" which is about an episode of the Revolution of 1830. You may have also heard of Flaubert's "Sentimental Education" which takes places during the Revolution of 1848 (even if the main characters are oddly outside of Paris during the actual physical turmoil...).

I'll refer you again to Dolcester's post to read more about the cult around Napoleon and how Romanticism could be linked to the Revolution, which is an argument that many many others have made too!

For more reading, Lukacs' "The Historical Novel" is great, Francois Hartog's "Régimes d'historicité" and Terdiman "Present/Past" are good for historical theories about the sense of "present" in relationship to "past" in the 19th century.