MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Louisstill had limited power
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Louiswas put in control of the National Convention
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Louisand Marie Antoinette was forced to leave France
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Louisbecame a common citizen
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Detailed explanation-1: -France was declared Republic on 21 September, 1792 and the monarchy was abolished. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were sentenced to death for treason in 1793.
Detailed explanation-2: -Louis XVI approved French military support for the American colonies in their successful struggle against the British, but the expense nearly bankrupted the country. Louis convened the Estates-General in an effort to solve his budget crisis, but by doing so he unwittingly sparked the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -After Mazarin’s death in 1661, Louis XIV broke with tradition and astonished his court by declaring that he would rule without a chief minister. He viewed himself as the direct representative of God, endowed with a divine right to wield the absolute power of the monarchy.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1792 he was tried by the revolutionaries. The monarchy was formally abolished, and “Year I” of the French Republic was declared. Louis XVI died at the guillotine on 21 January 1793.
Detailed explanation-5: -During the French Revolution, the proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy (French: Proclamation de l’abolition de la royauté) was a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy on 21 September 1792, giving birth to the French First Republic.