Describe the events of French Revolution which had influenced the people belonging to other parts of Europe
- THE French revolutionaries declared that it was the mission and the destiny of the French nation to liberate the people of Europe from despotism.
- When this news of events in French reached the different cities of Europe, students and other members of educated middle classes began setting up Jacobin clubs.
- Their activities and campaigns prepared the way for the French armies which moved into Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy in 1790s.
- With the outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.
- Within the wide swathe of territory that came under his control, Napoleon set about introducing many of the reforms that he had already introduced in France.