D. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. Which event sparked off the French Revolution?
2. What were the ideals of the French Revolution?
3. What were the three estates of the eighteenth century French society?
4. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
5. What was the Reign of Terror?
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Answer:
1.Bastille Day honors the rebellion that sparked the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, French citizens seized the Bastille, a state prison and symbol of royal overreach.
2.The central ideals of the French Revolution were liberty, equality, and fraternity. The French wanted basic human rights and freedom, and they got them.
3.Estates-General, also called States General, French États-Généraux, in France of the pre-Revolution monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy (First Estate) and nobility (Second Estate)—which were privileged minorities—and the Third Estate, which represented the majority of the people.
4.Napoléon Bonaparte, usually referred to as simply Napoleon in English, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804.
5.The Reign of Terror (September 5, 1793 – July 28, 1794), also known as The Terror, was a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins (moderate republicans) and the Jacobins (radical republicans), and marked by mass executions of “the enemies of the revolution.”
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