How French revolution led to the rise of nation in state of Europe?
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The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution in 1789. French Revolution was started with the storming of fortress prison Bastille in Paris on 14th July, 1789. France was a full fledged territorial state in 1789 under the rule of an absolute monarch. The political and constitutional changed that came in the wake of French Revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy to a body of French citizens. The revolution proclaimed that it was the people who would henceforth constitute the nation and shape its destiny.
The revolutionaries further declared that it was the mission and the destiny of the French nation to liberate the peoples of Europe from despotism, in other words to help other peoples of Europe to become nations.
When the news of the events in France reached the different cities of Europe, students and other members of educated middle classes began setting up Jacobin clubs. Their activities and campaigns prepared the way for the French armies to move into Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and much of Italy in the 1790s. With the outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.
In this way the French Revolution led to the rise of nation states in different parts of the Europe.