EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Robespierre
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Jacobins
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Danton
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Marat
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition. Corday was executed four days later for his assassination, on 17 July 1793.
Detailed explanation-2: -Leading up to the Terror By 1793, the revolutionary government was in crisis. France was being attacked by foreign countries on all sides and civil war was breaking out in many regions. Radicals led by Maximilien Robespierre took over the government and started the Reign of Terror.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Montagnards were radicals largely composed of Parisian bourgeoisie and the sansculottes (militants initially drawn from the poorer classes of Paris) and were led by the Jacobin Club of Paris.
Detailed explanation-4: -Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris. It was the height of the French Revolution-Robespierre’s Reign of Terror.