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Q: Who was in charge of France at the beginning of the French revolution?
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Who is in charge of France?

The French President most of the time...


Who were the two sides who were fighting in the French revolution?

Robespierre lead the rebels and King Louis XVI was the current king of France who was sort of in charge of the Loyalists.


Who was in charge when the french revolution ended?

flying sneakers, pickles and spagettios


Who was the head of the French government during the French Revolution?

==Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Maximilien de Robespierre, and Louis de Saint-Just all had critical leadership roles in bringing about and carrying out the French Revolution. Danton observed, "La révolution dévore ses enfants" [The revolution eats up its children]. And all four indeed had lost their heads by the time the revolution ended.


Why did Robespierre take control?

he was a tyrant who wanted to take over the french revolution and be in charge of its triumph


Who was in charge of Canada during the french revolution?

The British controlled most of Canada after the French had lost the Seven Years' War in 1763.


Who was the head of the French Republic?

The Committee of Public Safety was in charge of the French Republic. Eventually, Napoleon Bonaparte would become the head and then he transformed France into an empire.


What kind of government did France have before the French Revolution?

Before the Revoultion, France was an Absolute Monarchy. The King ruled by Divine Right, and his command was law. There were a number of feudal institutions that had roles in the enforcement and overseeing of laws, such as the law courts known as the Parlements. But the King had the final right to enforce or overturn any law. He could imprison people at will and hold them without charge. He had the right to confer property and titles of nobility, and to take them away. The King and his Ministers ruled France directly. Nobles and the Catholic Church also had numerous traditional rights, such as the rights to collect certain levies from the people.


What does a criminal charge of pif mean?

Could be fraud. In France PIF is a French acronym for 'protection des interet financiers de l'Union


Did Louis XVI try to end the French Revolution?

Some historians might say that it came with the crowning of Napoleon as Emperor of France in 1804. Others might say that it ended in 1795 with the end of the Reign of Terror and the beginning of the Directorate and the Thermidorian Reaction. The legal government was overthrown by a military coup in 1799. The French Consulate replaced the Directory.


What was the final outcome of Joan of Arc's death?

The French army remained inspired by her leadership and sacrifice and went on to achieve the goal of removing the British from France and place the French monarchy back in charge of the country.


What does the quotation They learned nothing and forgot nothing mean?

It is a quote by Tallyrand about the Bourbons (the rulers of France) of how they learned nothing from the events leading up to, during, and after the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, but forgot nothing when they returned to power and immediately put their old cronies back in charge and did all in their power to humiliate and impoverish those that turned them out.