WORLD HISTORY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Reflecting Enlightenment thought, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed
A
the importance of the Bastille.
B
an end to aristocratic privileges.
C
a movement to restore the monarchy.
D
equal rights for women in political life.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Reflecting Enlightenment thought, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed. the importance of the Bastille. an end to aristocratic privileges.

Detailed explanation-2: -The concepts in the Declaration come from the tenets of the Enlightenment, including individualism, the social contract as theorized by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the separation of powers espoused by Montesquieu. The spirit of secular natural law rests at the foundations of the Declaration.

Detailed explanation-3: -In its preamble and its 17 articles, it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression; it recognizes equality before the law and the justice system, and affirms the principle of separation of powers.

Detailed explanation-4: -An Enlightenment model The Declaration was a short document, containing only a preamble and 17 brief articles. These articles provided protection for numerous individual rights: liberty, property, freedom of speech and the press, freedom of religion and equal treatment before the law.

Detailed explanation-5: -Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, adopted August 26, 1789) is an expression of universal human rights-those rights that are true at all times and in all places-that served as one of the foundational documents of the French Revolution.

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