U1L2 Shaping Nationalism

Evaluation

France After 1789  /10

 Conclusion

In this lesson you gathered background on the conditions existing in France before revolution. You examined what factors (historical, social, political, economic, and geographic) were in place that would later shape the emergence of France as a nation and the shared collective consciousness of the French people that they were of the same nation.

The events of the French Revolution began with the calling of the Estates General. It led to almost one decade of change for the people of France. Many historians mark the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 as the leader of France as the end of the revolutionary period.