HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Which event is considered the beginning of the French Revolution?
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Napoleon’s Coup d’etat
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The formation of the Committee of Public Safety
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Storming of the Bastille
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The Reign of Terro
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison.
Detailed explanation-2: -The storming of the Bastille in Paris is symbolically marked as the start to the French Revolution and it provided motivation and power to the revolutionaries. Despite the Bastille housing hundreds of prisoners they weren’t the reason that rebellious Parisians attacked it.
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