FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Conservatives
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Girondins
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Radicals
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Moderates
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Girondins desired war in the hope that it would enable them to abolish monarchy altogether. They desired a general war because they believed that it would carry the Revolution into other countries and make it secure in France by making it universal.
Detailed explanation-2: -Within the Legislative Assembly, several hostile factions competed for power. The sans-culottes found support among radicals in the Legislative Assembly, especially the Jacobins. A revolutionary political club, the Jacobins were mostly middle-class lawyers or intellectuals.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. The measure came one year after King Louis XVI reluctantly approved a new constitution that stripped him of much of his power.
Detailed explanation-4: -National Convention (1792-1795) The convention’s first act was to establish the French First Republic and officially strip the king of all political powers.