Question

The french revolution was the first expression of nationalist in europe. explain in five point.

Answer 1

Metternich once remarked, "When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold".

•The French Revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy to a body of French citizens.

•The revolutionaries declared that it was the mission of the French Nation to liberate the people of Europe from despotism.

•the French ideas of the fatherland, la Patrice, and the citizen, le citoyen, emphasized the notion of a united community enjoying equal rights under a constitution.

•When the news of events in France reached the different cities of Europe, members of educated middle class begin setting up jacobin clubs.

•With the outbreak of revolutionary wars, the French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.

•The Civil Code of 1804 usually known as Napoleon code was exported to the regions under French control.