Quiz A new revolt-part I

Which had been the palace for French kings after King Louis XIV, and became the capital of the French monarchy for over 100 years?

Paris

Versailles

Avignon

Between which royal families was Louis XVI's wedding going to end centuries of rivalry?

The Stuarts and the Hapsburgs

The Bourbons and the Stuarts

The Hapsburgs and the Bourbons

What scientific and philosophic movement was becoming very influential in Paris while being in collision with the current state of monarchy and society during the XVII century?

The Enlightenment

The Romanticism

The Renaissance

Which can be an example of the enlightened ideas about going against monarchy, aristocracy and hierarchy in order to obtain freedom and development?

The American Revolution

The Mexican Independence

The Glorious Revolution

Who was the French lawyer who accused King Louis XVI of how the nobility lived in Versailles, while peasants were starving, dying and calling for liberty, equality and revolution?

Jean Paul Morat

Maximilian Robespierre

Georges Danton

How much time had been passed since the last Estates-General's meeting?

175 years.

100 years

300 years

How was France politically organized by that time?

In three states : the clergy, the monarchy, and the parliament.

In three states : the clergy, the nobility, and the rest of France.

In three states : the clergy, the nobility, and the king.

What was born from the revolutionary stand of defiance of the Tennis Court Oath, being parliamentary body acting at peoples' will?

The National Assembly.

The Committee

The Parliament

When the French raided the Bastille, what were they looking for?

Money

Gun powder.

Food