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Political And Social French Revolution
1,058 wordsDid Napoleon preserve or pervert the gains of the Revolution Napoleon was indirectly responsible for spreading many of the ideals of the French Revolution throughout Europe. Although he never openly espoused revolutionary tenets his Empire and government was in many ways the living embodiment of those ideals. The three main areas that he had a significant impact were individualism, secularism, and nationalism. Prior to the French Revolution, class or social status was more important in French so...
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King Louis Xvi People Of France
1,824 wordsThere was a loud thunk as the blade hit, and then a roar of the crowd as another nobleman's head was raised, after being cut off. The French Revolution (1789 - 1795) was one if not the most bloodiest revolutions ever in history. There were three social classes in France known as the Estates-General. The French revolutionists took the phrase Liberty, Equality, Fraternity as their slogan into battle (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia). They were out to win equality, even if it meant sacrificing t...
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Committee Of Public Safety Sans Culottes
3,531 words... ards - Believe the attack was over until the Swiss started firing, King ordered his Swiss grade to cease fire - THE RISING WAS AS MUCH A REJECTION OF THE ASSEMBLY AS IT WAS OF THE KING - Deputies had to hand over the King to the Commune, who imprisoned him - As a consequence of the fall of the monarchy, the 1791 Constitution became inoperative. The Assembly had to agree to the election, by universal male suffrage, of a National Convention to draw up a new, democratic constitution - The const...
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Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Empire
5,535 wordsThe French Revolution French Revolution, cataclysmic political and social upheaval, extending from 1789 to 1799. The revolution resulted, among other things, in the overthrow of the Bourbonmonarchy in France and in the establishment of the First Republic. It was generated by avast complex of causes, the most important of which were the inability of the ruling classes of nobility, clergy, and bourgeoisie to come to grips with the problems of state, the indecisive nature of the monarch, impoverish...
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Jacques Louis David Group Of People
1,704 wordsFrench Revolution-Death Of Marat (Painting Analysis, Representations French Revolution-Death Of Marat (Painting Analysis, Representations Of The Past) History C. A. T. 1 The Death of Marat, is an idealistic portrait painted by Jacques-Louis David, depicting the assassination of one of the leaders of the French Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a prominent member of a group of people called the Jacobins, and founder of a controversial newspaper publication, L Ami du Peuple (the Friend of the...
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French People Government Convention
566 wordsFrom the beginning of the 20 th century until the 1970 s, the French Revolution was most commonly described as the result of the growing economic and social importance of the bourgeoisie, or middle class. The bourgeoisie, it was believed, overthrew the Old Regime because that regime had given power and privilege to other classes-the nobility and the clergy-who prevented the bourgeoisie from advancing socially and politically. Recently this interpretation has been replaced by one that relies less...
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