2. Answer the following question in one word.
i) Who wrote the spirit of the laws?
ii) Who crowned himself as Emperor of French?
iii) In which book did Rousseau mention the idea of one person, one vote?
3. What was Directory?
4. What did the French Revolution of 1789 stand for?
Answers
Answer:
(I) Montesquieu
(ii) Napoleon
(iii) Genevan philosopher
3. The Directory was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution.
4. The French Revolution of 1789 stood for the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In 1792 the monarchy was abolished and France was declared a republic. However, several attempts were made to establish a republican government, but none lasted very long, so in a way. The French Revolution began in 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille. It ends with in 1799 when Napoleon become First Consul.