MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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an eyewitness account from a prisoner at the Bastille
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an encyclopedia entry about the Reign of Terror
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a movie about Louis XVI
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The section on the French Revolution includes several interesting primary sources including “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship". The principal speeches of the statesmen and orators of the French revolution, 1789-1795; Specific Documents, letters, personal accounts, etc.
Detailed explanation-2: -The storming of the Bastille symbolically marked the beginning of the French Revolution, in which the monarchy was overthrown and a republic set up based on the ideas of ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’ (the French for liberty, equality and brotherhood).
Detailed explanation-3: -Notes: Rousseau is regarded as the source of inspiration of the great French Revolution that took place in 1789 as his ideas not only inspired poets and men of letters but included the revolutionary upsurge that shook the French polity to its foundation.
Detailed explanation-4: -from an eye witness.” Appointed U.S. Minister to France in 1785, Thomas Jefferson was the American Government’s man on the ground in Paris in July 1789 when the French people rose up against their rulers and the first blood was shed in the opening days of the French Revolution.