MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Question
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Jacobin
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Three Estates
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Girondist
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Committee of Public Safety
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Detailed explanation-1: -With Brissot, they advocated exporting the Revolution through aggressive foreign policies including war against the surrounding European monarchies. The Girondins were also one of the first supporters of abolitionism in France with Brissot leading the anti-slavery Society of the Friends of the Blacks.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jacobin Club was heterogeneous and included both prominent parliamentary factions of the early 1790s: The Mountain and the Girondins. In 1792–93, the Girondins were more prominent in leading France when they declared war on Austria and on Prussia, overthrew King Louis XVI, and set up the French First Republic.
Detailed explanation-3: -It ended after thousands of armed citizens surrounded the Convention to force the deputies to deliver the deputies denounced by the Commune. The result was the fall of the 29 Girondins and two Ministers under pressure of the sans-culottes, Jacobins of the clubs, and Montagnards.
Detailed explanation-4: -On 6 April 1793 the National Convention established the Committee of Public Safety, which gradually became the de facto war-time government of France. The Committee oversaw the Reign of Terror.