Could someone please write a sample response to this:
The violent affray that took place on the Champ de Mars in July 1791 marked an important stage in the struggle for power between constitutional monarchists (Feuilliants) and Jacobins, between liberal bourgeoisie and revolutionary democrats. In Paris is led directly to the eclipse of Bailly and Lafayette as the leaders of the city administration; yet, in the National Assembly, the defeat of the ‘constitutionalists’ was delayed by the outbreak of war and was not completed until the fall of the monarchy on 1792. In terms of the social history of Paris the Champ de Mars affair both represented the first bloody class within the third estate… and the culmination of several months of social upheaval and of revolutionary agitation, at the end of which the democrats organised in the Jacobins and Cordeliers Clubs appear to as the undisputed leaders of the Parisian sans-cullotes. In the course of this movement the tradesmen, artisans and wage earners of the capital emerge more clearly as elements which the main protagonists in the struggle for power cannot afford to ignore, and whose interests the revolutionary democrats, at least, must affect to espouse [believe in]. In this sense, then, the Champ de Mars demonstration itself should be seen as the culmination of a process and, as in the case of the October insurrection, treated in the context of the varied social and political movement that preceded it.’
4. Evaluate to what extent the extract presents a reliable view of the signficance of the Champs de Mars massacre.
In your response refer to different views of the Revolution.
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