The French versus the American model

It has become common place by now to compare the American and the French revolutions in order to contrast not only their two different natures, but also the vastly distinct set of consequences they both had. Needless to say, this has been a favorite sport among the leading American neoconservatives bent on proving the evil nature of any attempt at promoting equality through interventionist policies (Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments is perhaps one of the best examples of this, although we should be warned not to take the book lightly and think of it as any sort of cheap propaganda for it contains quite a few kernels of truth). So, what are the main features of one and the other revolution in these comparisons?

A legacy of blood and terror?

Guillotine, reppresion, dogmatism... the execution of the King and Marie Antoinette, and the reasons behind it. Marat and Robespierre. The failure of the girondines to avoid a bloodshed.

The anti-theistic component

The role of the Church in the Ancient Régime, and the differences of the religious component when compared to America.

The other legacy: nation-state, conscripted armies, rights of men...