MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the man who assassinated a leading Jacobin?
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A royalist emigre
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a radical journalist
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a neoclassical painter
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Detailed explanation-1: -A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers.
Detailed explanation-2: -L’Ami du peuple (French: [lami dy pœpl], The Friend of the People) was a newspaper written by Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jean-Paul Marat, a key figure in the revolutionary government from September 1792, published the radical newspaper L’Ami du Peuple. He aggressively denounced many members of the more moderate faction, the Girodins. As an act of retribution he was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Radical Phase of 1792-1794 is when most atrocities took place. France was ruled by a Committee for Public Safety. The Moderate Period1794-1799 was a where the middle class took over. Lastly, Napoleon’s coup-d-etat occurred and he took over.