Generally I've understood that the French Revolution is one of the most important events in the timeline of feudalism ceasing to be the dominant political and economic system of the Western world. In that sense I'm curious if it's considered to be a capitalist revolution in the same vein as how the Russian Revolution of 1917 is considered to be a socialist revolution. In its time, was it thought of that way by the people participating in it or by others around the world? Is it considered that nowadays from a historical perspective?
Marxist historians like Georges Lefebrvre would certainly have agreed that it was a capitalist revolution, with a mercantile bourgeois class rising up for its own economic interests and overthrowing the last vestiges of feudalism. More recently, revisionist historians have cast doubt on this interpretation, noting that the French bourgeoisie was a wildly disparate class, and that most of them hoped to enter into the aristocracy and earn privileges - hardly very capitalist, whereas the greatest capitalists in old regime France were actually aristocrats! The revisionists stress cultural origins of the revolution and the financial crisis in France, rather than class interests as the engine of the Revolution.
I'm sure someone else can add more to this, but this is a contentious topic (and a very interesting one). I have some reading suggestions, though:
An easy to read revisionist critique of Marxist interpretations is T.C.W. Blanning's The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash?
For a good account of the historiographical battle over the French Revolution, check out Paul Hanson's Contesting the French Revolution.