Question

How was the concept of nationalism introduced by the french revolution?

Answer 1

Napoleon Bonaparte promoted French nationalism based upon the ideas of French Revolution such as the idea of Liberty equality and fraternity and justified French expansionism and French military campaigns on the calm that France had the right spread the enlightened ideals of the French Revolution across Europe .

Answer 2

Under the government of an absolute monarch, in the year 1789,  France emerged as a full-fledged nation. The legislative and constitutional developments that occurred in the wake of the French Revolution commenced to the transfer of government from monarchy to a governing body of French voters. The revolution announced that it was the people of France who would henceforth create the nation and form its fortune.