OCR A Level History A Unit Group 2 Non-British period study: The French Revolution and the rule of Napoleon 1774-1815 June 2023 question paper Y213

Which of the following was of greater importance in the fall of Napoleon?

(i) Napoleon’s personal failings

(ii) Napoleon’s rule in France after 1807

Explain your answer with reference to both (i) and (ii).

* To what extent was Napoleon’s Empire in France a police state?

Which of the following was more important in the fall of Robespierre?

(i) The loss of the support of the sans-culottes

(ii) Robespierre’s policies

Explain your answer with reference to both (i) and (ii).

* How important were the ideas of the Enlightenment and American Revolution in bringing

about the French Revolution?