Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, became a deeply unpopular figure among the French public partly due to perceptions of her extravagant spending and her:
A.
Support for the abolition of the monarchy
B.
Leadership of the Jacobin Club
C.
Role in drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man
D.
Austrian origin, given ongoing tensions and suspicion of foreign influence at court
D. Austrian origin, given ongoing tensions and suspicion of foreign influence at court
14.
In preparation for the meeting of the Estates General in 1789, each of the three Estates across France was asked to prepare lists of grievances and suggestions for reform, known as the:
On 17 June 1789, frustrated by the traditional voting procedures that favoured the privileged orders, the representatives of the Third Estate took the historic step of declaring themselves to be the:
A.
Directory
B.
Council of Five Hundred
C.
National Assembly, representing the whole French nation
C. National Assembly, representing the whole French nation
16.
The declaration of the Third Estate as the National Assembly in June 1789 reflected a fundamental shift in political thinking, asserting that sovereignty belonged not to the king alone but to:
In the summer of 1789, widespread peasant unrest, fuelled by rumours of an aristocratic conspiracy and fears of brigands attacking villages, led to a wave of rural uprisings against feudal landlords, known as the:
