FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Louis XIV
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The Estates-General
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The Committee of Public Safety
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Napoleon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17, 000 enemies of the Revolution.
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: -On 22 August 1795, the French Republic adopted the Constitution of Year III, which gave France a new bicameral legislative body, the National Directory. In doing so, all the committees of the old National Convention were abolished, including the Committee of Public Safety.