WORLD HISTORY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This was invented to further humane goals, though often used in contradiction to such goals.
A
guillotine
B
émigrés
C
sans-culottes
D
National Assembly
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: –Legislative AssemblyThis was invented to further humane goals, though often used in contradiction to such goals.-GuillotineThis person wrote a strong response to “A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” becauseit did not give the same rights to women that it gave to men.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine? No one was safe, as many as 40, 000 were executed during the French Revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The National Assembly was replaced with a more democratic body called the National Convention after the National Assembly was discredited. The National Convention declared France to be a republic.

Detailed explanation-4: -The name sans-culottes refers to their clothing, and through that to their lower-class status: culottes were the fashionable silk knee-breeches of the 18th-century nobility and bourgeoisie, and the working class sans-culottes wore pantaloons, or long trousers, instead.

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