Question

Who was rhe king of france when the french revolution broke out in 1789 ?explain any two imidiete consequence of the french revolution

Answer 1

Answer:

Louis XVI

Explanation:

• The immediate impact of the French Revolution was the death of thousands of aristocrats on the guillotine, the desecration of many Catholic cathedrals and churches and the abolishment of religion, and the establishment of a republic in 1792 after the arrest of the King at the Royal Palais.  Then, the legislative power of the republic fell to the National Convention.  But, in 1793, the Jacobins seized power and unleashed the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) with nearly 1200 people meeting death on the guillotine.

• In 1794 the French people revolted against the excesses of the Reign of Terror.  After this a plebiscite ratified a constitution and took effect in 1795

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:Part I: the deposed (and ultimately executed) king of France was Louis XVI, husband of Marie-Antoinette.

Part II:

a) the destruction of a privileged hierarchy-oligarchy (comprising the Church, the aristocracy, the guilds) in favor of a more egalitarian and merit-based society and economy.

b) the abolition of absolute monarchy and its replacement by constitutional government, as explained below.

The French Revolution resulted in the First Republic. A leftist uprising in 1848 resulted in the short-lived Second Republic. It was replaced by the Second Empire (led by Napoleon III), which lasted until 1870. France was then briefly governed by the ultra-left, and disastrous, Commune de Paris. It was replaced by the Third Republic, which yielded to a puppet government in Vichy after Hitler’s invasion of France. Following WWII, General Charles de Gaulle led a provisional government for two years. In 1948, the Fourth Republic was introduced, for the purpose of ridding the government of its Nazi collaborators and restoring the democratic institutions of the Third Republic. Unfortunately, with a weak executive branch, it suffered the same instability as the Third Republic, with frequent changes in the premiership, or prime minister. In 1958, the Fifth Republic came into existence, with a strong executive branch and General de Gaulle as president. (He was head of state when I lived in France from 1968 to 1970). It has proved to be the most stable and enduring pattern for government. With few exceptions, each new government described above was inaugurated by a revised Constitution, all of which were based, in large measure on the original revolutionary Constitution (of 1791), which included government by legislative assembly, popular sovereignty and an independent judiciary, with a separation of powers for each one.