MP Board · Class 10 · Social Science · History: The Rise of Nationalism in EuropeWhat was the main aim of the French revolutionaries when they declared that the mission and the destiny of the French nation was to liberate the peoples of Europe from despotism?

The correct option is that they wanted to liberate the peoples of Europe from despotism and help them become nations. When the news of the events in France 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 much of Italy in the 1790s. With the outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad, aiming to establish liberty, equality, and fraternity across Europe and rid neighboring countries of oppressive monarchical despotism.