What common idea can be seen in La Marseillaise and the National Convention?

Correct answer: Placing the nation at the center as a political community

The direct answer is A: both La Marseillaise and the National Convention placed the nation at the centre as a political community. La Marseillaise became a powerful revolutionary song connected with defending the country and its citizens. It encouraged people to think of themselves as members of a nation who had duties toward one another. The National Convention also acted in the name of the French nation and abolished monarchy, replacing it with a republic. A is correct because both examples move political importance away from the king and toward the nation and its citizens. B is wrong because neither example made the king the divine centre. C is wrong because both belonged to the revolutionary movement, which opposed the return of feudal privileges. D is wrong because Church taxation was not their common idea. The memory cue is simple: revolutionary song plus revolutionary assembly equals national political identity.