Answer the following Questions:
1. Explain the terms "Tithes" and "Taille."
2. Which groups of French society benefited from the revolution? And How?
3.
Write a note on the Abolition of Slavery.
4. Describe The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen.
5.
Give a reason why Bastille was hated by all. Why did a group of several hundred people
storm the fortress prison Bastille?
6. Write a brief note on "The life of a revolutionary woman - Olympe de Gouges".
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8. Who are the clergy?
9. Name the three 'Estates' into which French society was divided before the
Revolution.
10. What compelled Louis XVI to raise taxes in France?
11. Describe the status of the nobles in France before the revolution.
Explain the Subsistence crisis.
12. "The inequality that existed in the French Society in the Old Regime became the
cause of the French Revolution". Justify the statement.
13. What measures were taken by Robespierre to bring equality in the French
Society?