WORLD HISTORY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Committee of Public Safety was established during the French Revolution in order to
A
create a new republican order
B
restore the monarchy
C
set up savings banks
D
defend against Jacobin terror
E
protect the Pope on his visits to Paris
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Supplementing the Committee of General Defence, created early January 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was created in April 1793 by the National Convention. It was charged with protecting the new republic against its foreign and domestic enemies, fighting the First Coalition and the Vendée revolt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Committee of Public Safety was created by the National Convention in 1793 with the intent to defend the nation against foreign and domestic enemies, as well as to oversee the new functions of the executive government. Members were elected and served for a period of one month.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Committee of Public Safety was set up on April 6, 1793, during one of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war.

Detailed explanation-4: -A committee created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793 to form the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–94), a stage of the French Revolution.

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