MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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How did the ideas of the Enlightenment influence the French people in the years leading up to the French Revolution?
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Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory at Borodino persuaded them to believe that a powerful central ruler was necessary to stabilize the country.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract persuaded them to view practices like inherited privilege and absolute monarchy as irrational.
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Maximilien de Robespierre’s Reign of Terror persuaded them to believe that killing the king was necessary to legitimize the government.
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Louis XVI’s formation of the Estates General persuaded them to view the national debt and tax rates as the most important issues of the time.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s thoughts and texts, such as the Social Contract, instilled the entitlement of basic human rights to all men. Rousseau’s concepts on rights combined with Baron Montesquieu’s ideas on government provided the backbone of a radical movement in the French Revolution known as the Terror.
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