THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
NAPOLEONIC WARS
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Maximilien Robespierre
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John Locke
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Another impact of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution can be seen in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. The document was adopted by the National Assembly on August 26th, 1789.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the Tennis Court Oath, the National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution. This commitment to imposing a constitution on France was a threat to the power of the monarch.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Oath signified for the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI. The National Assembly’s refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions. It was foreshadowed by and drew considerably from the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, especially the preamble.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution and was an important revolutionary act that displayed the belief that political authority came from the nation’s people and not from the monarchy.