FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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It abolished the monarchy and set up a republic.
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It put into practice ideals of the Enlightenment.
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It protected the feudal privileges of the First Estate.
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It represented a compromise between the monarch and radicals.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which best describes the impact of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen? It protected the feudal privileges of the First Estate.
Detailed explanation-2: -It called for the destruction of aristocratic privileges by proclaiming an end to feudalism and to exemptions from taxation, freedom and equal rights for all “Men", and access to public office based on talent. The monarchy was restricted, and all citizens were to have the right to take part in the legislative process.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main points in the Declaration of the Rights of Man was that all people had natural rights, such as men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. Citizens had freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and equal justice.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. The Declaration guaranteed property rights and asserted that taxation should be paid by all, in proportion to their means.
Detailed explanation-5: -Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of Man. These rights are Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.