Answer the questions given under each caption

Social life in France

a) What was the tax collected by the Church in France ?

b) Who was Danton?

c) Who were the Encyclopaedists of eighteenth-century France?

d) Who provided free labour for the construction of public roads?

a)The Church collected TITHE, a tax that comprised 10% of peasant produce, or earnings from the Third Estate.

b) Danton was one of the trios that led the Republican ideas and formed The National Convention in 1792. He was a Jacobian, and died at the guillotine at Robespierre’s order.

c) Diderot and Jean d’Alembert were the Encyclopaedists, who brought out a collection of articles (called Encyclopaedia), which criticised religious intolerance and feudal privileges.

d) The free labour was provided by the peasantry, and it was called COVREE.