FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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Marquis de Lafayette
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Robespierre
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Louis XVI
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Napoleon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lafayette stayed with the Washington family at Mount Vernon for ten days. In July 1789, shortly after the start of the French Revolution, Lafayette was named Commander of the French National Guard.
Detailed explanation-2: -Though he was torn between those two worlds, his friend Thomas Jefferson predicted that Layfayette’s strong republican sympathies would win out. Nevertheless, as the French Revolution unfolded, Lafayette continued to support the government of Louis XVI and the idea of a constitutional monarchy.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in 1789, Lafayette was made commander in chief of the new national guard, organized to safeguard the Revolution’s secure place in France.
Detailed explanation-4: -With no combat experience and not yet 20 years old, Lafayette was nonetheless appointed a major general in the Continental Army, and he quickly struck up a lasting friendship with the American commander in chief, George Washington.