FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Wasteful Spending & Failing to provide food to the people
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Conspiring with foreign monarchs to stop the revolution
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Failing to support France in time of need
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. Marie Antoinette’s trial began on 14 October 1793; she was convicted two days later by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed, also by guillotine, at the Place de la Révolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1789, faced with a grave financial crisis, the king summoned a meeting of the Estates General at the palace. Later that year, ceding to popular pressure, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette left Versailles for Paris. Both died by the guillotine in 1793.
Detailed explanation-3: -At 4 in the morning on 16 October, she was found guilty of the three main charges against her: conspiring with foreign powers, the depletion of the state treasury, and of committing high treason by acting against the security of the French state.