FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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People were so desperate during the French Revolution that they ate their own children.
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The French Revolution degenerated in mob rule, then a bloody dictatorship any many French died.
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Things were so good after the Revolution that parents chose to give up their children to the state.
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People will kill their own children in order to get the things they want.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The craving for more money and power brings even the most self-righteous to their own demise. It refers to the fact that after the success or no success of a revolution, there comes a time when justice is done to the catalysts of the revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon can be regarded as the child of the French Revolution as during the initial period he promoted some of the ideas and aims of the revolution. French revolutionaries had the vision of making the people free by ending “absolute monarchy” which was supported by Napoleon and paved the way for his uprising.
Detailed explanation-3: -The causes of the French Revolution can be narrowed to five main factors: the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution. The Estate System placed people into groups based on birth and was known as the Ancien Regime.
Detailed explanation-4: -A legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, the motto “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” first appeared during the French Revolution. Although it was often called into question, it finally established itself under the Third Republic.