EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Divine right
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Limited monarchy
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Constitutional monarchy
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Communism
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Detailed explanation-1: -As sovereign by divine right, the King was God’s representative on earth. It is in this respect that his power was “absolute”, which in Latin means literally ‘free of all restraints’: the king was answerable to no one but God. During his coronation, Louis XIV swore to defend the Catholic faith.
Detailed explanation-2: -L’état, c’est moi means “I myself am the nation.” The French words literally mean “the state, it’s me” and are usually rendered “the state, it is I” in English.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis XVI was the absolute divine right monarch of France during the Revolution, and was a descendant of the Bourbon monarchy. He succeeded his grandfather, Louis XIV – the Sun King, to the throne in 1774, at the age of 20.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yes, Louis XIV ruled by the divine right of kings. Louis was an absolute monarch. One of his most famous sayings was L’etat ce’est moiu, which means “I am the state.” The absolute monarchy continued to exist in France up until the French Revolution in 1789.
Detailed explanation-5: -“L’etat, c’est moi, ” “I am the state, ” said King Louis XIV of France. Louis believed that he was the only one responsible for governing France when he ruled from 1643 to 1715.