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The French Revolution had a major impact on western history, by ending feudalism in France and creating a path for advances in individual freedoms throughout Europe. [ 227 ] [ 2 ] The revolution represented the most significant challenge to political absolutism up to that point in history and spread democratic ideals throughout Europe and ...
Free Imperial Cities are counted as republics. Ecclesiastical lands mainly consist of prince-bishoprics in the Holy Roman Empire and the Papal States in central Italy. Because the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a mixture between an elective monarchy and a republic, and often called and categorised as both, it is rendered in purple.
English: Monarchies, republics and ecclesiastical lands in Europe near the end of the French Revolution. On 21 January 1799, the proclamation of the Parthenopean Republic marked the peak of the period of sister republics – states founded on territories conquered by French and local revolutionary armies between 1795 and 1799 that were modeled after and loyal to the French First Republic.
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The French First Republic in 1800. The borders of France then corresponded closely to the 'natural borders' as defined by the French revolutionaries. The natural borders of France (French: Frontières naturelles de la France) were a nationalist model of French state-building developed during the French Revolution that called for the expansion of France's borders to prominent natural boundaries ...
Set up by a law of 21 March 1793, the initial task of the sections' revolutionary committees was surveillance on foreigners without interfering in the lives of French citizens. Their activities towards that end (often going beyond the limits the law of 21 March had placed on them) were enabled by the Law of Suspects of 17 September 1793.
Versailles on the Cassini map. The Cassini Map or Academy's Map is the first topographic and geometric map made of the Kingdom of France as a whole. It was compiled by the Cassini family, mainly César-François Cassini (Cassini III) and his son Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini IV) in the 1700s.