History A-Level
The shift from constitutional monarchy to republic
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The journée of 10 August suspended the king and ended the constitutional monarchy, and the National Convention declared France a republic.
Topics that use The shift from constitutional monarchy to republic
- Revolution and the failure of constitutional monarchy, 1789–93 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Brunswick Manifesto
- flight to Varennes
- Great Fear
- October Days
- Popular insurrection and the sans-culottes
- Republicanism
- Revolutionary justice and violence
- Royalist support
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