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Explain any four measures and practices introduced by revolutionaries to create a sense of collective identity amongst the French people.


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The French revolutionaries introduced various measures and practices that created a sense of collective identity amongst the French people.

1. The ideas of la patrie (the fatherland) and le citoyen (the citizen) emphasised the notion of a united community enjoying equal rights under a constitution.

2. A new French flag, the tricolour, was chosen to replace the former royal standard.

3. The Estates General was elected by the body of active citizens and renamed the National Assembly.

4. New hymns were composed, oaths taken and martyrs commemorated, all in the name of the nation.

5. A centralised administrative system was put in place and it formulated uniform laws for all citizens within its territory.

6. Internal customs duties and dues were abolished and a uniform system of weights and measures was adopted .

7. Regional dialects were discouraged and French, as it was spoken and written in Paris, became the common language of the nation.


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