FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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public acceptance, private opposition
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outright condemnation of revolutionary act
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enthusiastic and material support
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joining the bourgeoisie against noble privileges
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Detailed explanation-1: -Despite his reluctance, he had to endorse its “destruction” of the feudal regime and its Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August. The king privately continued to believe that the Revolution would burn itself out.
Detailed explanation-2: -Louis XVI, (born Aug. 23, 1754, Versailles, France-died Jan. 21, 1793, Paris), Last king of France (1774–92) in the Bourbon line preceding the French Revolution. In 1770 he married Marie-Antoinette, and in 1774 he succeeded to the throne on the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.
Detailed explanation-3: -France. The word “counter-revolutionary” originally referred to thinkers who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution, such as Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald or, later, Charles Maurras, the founder of the Action française monarchist movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -There were a number of significant causes of the Revolution. Previously, King Louis XIV had manipulated his kingdom to ensure that he had strengthened the absolute power of the monarchy and basically removed any remnants of the old feudal system. His successors enjoyed the decadent lifestyle which this power generated.