FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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George’s Danton
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Marat
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Maximilian Robespierre
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King Louis XVI
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Detailed explanation-1: -Executive power would lie in the hands of a five-member Directory (Directoire) appointed by parliament. Royalists and Jacobins protested the new regime but were swiftly silenced by the army, now led by a young and successful general named Napoleon Bonaparte.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bourbon dynasty had been deposed during the French revolution. House of Bourbon, was most important ruling houses of Europe. Its members were descended from Louis I, duc de Bourbon from 1327 to 1342.
Detailed explanation-3: -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. The day after his arrest, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were guillotined before a cheering mob in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.