WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Supporters of the Old Regime in the French Revolution
A
Counterrevolutionary
B
Plebiscite
C
Popular Sovereignty
D
Scorched Earth Policy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Royalists: the term most commonly given to a wide range of supporters of the Ancien Régime who sought to reverse most changes of the Revolution and restore the royal House of Bourbon and the Catholic Church to its pre-1789 authority.

Detailed explanation-2: -Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald (2 October 1754 – 23 November 1840) was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician.

Detailed explanation-3: -After French King Louis XVI was tried and executed on January 21, 1793, war between France and monarchal nations Great Britain and Spain was inevitable. These two powers joined Austria and other European nations in the war against Revolutionary France that had already started in 1791.

Detailed explanation-4: -noun, plural coun·ter·rev·o·lu·tion·ar·ies. Also coun·ter·rev·o·lu·tion·ist [koun-ter-rev-uh-loo-shuh-nist]. a person who advocates or engages in a counterrevolution.

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