FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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the threat of invasion from nations threatened by the revolution.
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vicious attacks against the king by army officers led by Napoleon.
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uncontrolled inflation that harmed workers in Paris and other cities.
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counterrevolutionary efforts by émigrés.
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fear that the king did not support and sought to undermine the revolution.
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Detailed explanation-1: -French Revolution Turns Radical On the domestic front, meanwhile, the political crisis took a radical turn when a group of insurgents led by the extremist Jacobins attacked the royal residence in Paris and arrested the king on August 10, 1792.
Detailed explanation-2: -France was close to civil war. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries found themselves not only at war with Austria and Prussia, but with Holland, Spain and Great Britain. As the Revolution stumbled under the weight of foreign war and civil war, the revolutionary leadership grew more radical.
Detailed explanation-3: -The causes of the French Revolution can be narrowed to five main factors: the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution. The Estate System placed people into groups based on birth and was known as the Ancien Regime.
Detailed explanation-4: -After Austria refused to recall its troops from the French border and to back down on the perceived threat of using force, France declared war on Austria and Prussia in the spring of 1792; both countries responded with a coordinated invasion that was eventually turned back at the Battle of Valmy in September.