MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Supporting universal suffrage
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Conspiring with foreign monarchs (Treason)
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Sabotaging the reactionaries
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Aiding the Jacobins
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Detailed explanation-1: -The next January, Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, and on October 16 she followed her husband to the guillotine.
Detailed explanation-2: -On December 11th 1792, French king Louis XVI appeared before the National Convention, where he was charged with treason against the people.
Detailed explanation-3: -The former French queen was found guilty of treason in October, 1793, and sentenced to death. In 1793, four years after the French Revolution began, Marie Antoinette was no longer Queen of France.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1789, faced with a grave financial crisis, the king summoned a meeting of the Estates General at the palace. Later that year, ceding to popular pressure, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette left Versailles for Paris. Both died by the guillotine in 1793.