UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2016 · Q6(a) · 20 marks
Critically examine the statement that the French Revolution was not caused by the French philosophers but by the conditions of national life and by the mistakes of the government.
- Chapter
- Origins of Modern Politics
- Topic
- French Revolution: Causes and the Philosophers
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