AQA A-level HISTORY 7042/2H Component 2H France in Revolution, 1774-1| QUESTION PAPER & MARKING SCHEME/ [MERGED] Marking scheme June 2023815 Version: 1.0 Final

AQA A-level HISTORY 7042/2H Component 2H France in Revolution, Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E4 7042/2H A-level HISTORY Component 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 Friday 9 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 16-page answer book. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7042/2H. • Answer three questions. In Section A answer Question 01. In Section B answer two questions. Information • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • The maximum mark for this paper is 80. • You will be marked on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Advice • You are advised to spend about: – 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A – 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B. 2 IB/M/Jun23/7042/2H Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From a speech on the future of the King, given in the National Convention, by Maximilien Robespierre, 3 December 1792. Louis is dethroned by his crimes. He conspired against the Republic: either he is condemned or the basis of the Republic is under question. To propose the trial of Louis XVI is to question the revolution. If Louis may be tried, he may be acquitted; if he may be acquitted, he may be innocent. But if he is innocent, what becomes of the revolution? If he is innocent, what are we but false accusers? There is another difficulty – to what punishment shall we condemn him? For myself, I detest the penalty of death; I neither love nor hate Louis, I hate nothing but his crimes. However, a dethroned king in the very heart of a Republic not yet consolidated? A king, whose very name draws foreign war on the nation? Neither prison nor exile can make his an innocent existence. It is with regret I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must perish rather than 100 000 virtuous citizens! Louis must perish because our country must live. 5 10 Source B From a report in an American newspaper, 12 December 1792. The report’s author had been educated in Geneva and Paris but returned to