MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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emigres
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sans-culotte
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the directory
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Detailed explanation-1: -émigré, any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government, seeking foreign help in their goal of restoring the old regime.
Detailed explanation-2: -Émigrés of the French Revolution left their homeland because they eschewed the political development in France or in reaction to the increasing pressure of political exclusion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The émigrés were those who fled the revolution, either for security, safety or to organise counter-revolution. There were more than 100, 000 émigrés between 1789 and 1794. 2. Only a small proportion of émigrés were nobles, in fact, most belonged to the Third Estate.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the French Revolution, more than 100, 000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually intact.