MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Directory-Constitutional Monarchy-Empire
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Absolute Monarchy-Constitutional Monarchy-Republic
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Detailed explanation-1: -French governments in order from before the Revolution through the end of the Revolution for absolute monarchy-Directorate-Constitutional Monarchy.
Detailed explanation-2: -France before 1789 was an absolute monarchy ruled by the Bourbons. This meant that the authority of the French Crown was not limited by any representative body, such as an elected parliament. The King was responsible only to God and answerable to no one on Earth. This system of government is also known as absolutism.
Detailed explanation-3: -It ended in May 1789, when widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates-General, which was converted into a National Assembly in June. The Assembly passed a series of radical measures, including the abolition of feudalism, state control of the Catholic Church and extending the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -King Louis XIV (1643–1715) of France furnished the most familiar assertion of absolutism when he said, “L’état, c’est moi” (“I am the state”).