The behavior by the revolutionary French government was not justified. ... Austria and Prussia did make their way into France and the emigres did form armies but throughout the war, France stayed in the lead. According to Document B, the French won the famous Battle of Valmy and even defeated Prussia and Austria, taking over the Austrian Netherlands, in a matter of just 3 years. ... The government immediately turned to accusing everyone of being a counterrevolutionary for saying even the slightest critique about the government. ... Finally, the actions the government took were extreme and unne...

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The demise of the Provisional Government took place as Russia continued with the war effort. ... Fear was evident amongst the French society as France declared war on Austria in 1792. ... " the immediate consequences of declaring war against Austria were disastrous."" ... This eventually led to the September Massacres where 1,200 people were executed for suspicion of having supported the Austrian invasion. ... The declaration of war on Austria and the decrees passed by Robespierre were considered to be a threat to the French Revolution. ...

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It also protected all men from the government revoking your land and random arrests and punishments. ... The Assembly justified their actions by saying the Church never really owned the property because it belonged to the government(Kaiser). ... After the King had agreed to this Prussia and Austria made a declaration that persuaded France to believe there would be an invasion. ... The threat from Austria and Prussia influenced many of the King's advisors to believe that an invasion was coming. Prussia and Austria really didn't care about France though. ...

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Eventually, Napoleon signed a peace treaty with Austria in 1796, and was welcomed back to Paris with a passionate joyous celebration (Greenblatt 22). ... Napoleon and his troops again invaded Italy to defeat the Austrians who again had taken base there (Blackwood 11). It was a difficult and strenuous fight but eventually Napoleon became victorious again against the Austrians. ... The three-consul set up a government that would let ordinary citizens take power throughout the government and uphold the ideals of the French Revolution (97). ... The government had also put a ban on newspapers fro...

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In 1795, he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. ... He defeated four Austrian generals in succession, each at impossible odds, and forced Austria and it's allies to make peace. ... In Paris, he joined a conspiracy against the government. ... In 1800, he assured his power by crossing the Alps and defeating the Austrians at Marengo. ... Two years after this Russia and Austria joined the British in a second coalition. ...

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The French government borrowed much money to pay for the wars of Louis XIV. ... It stated that democratic principles would be the basis for French government. ... After the war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred. ... By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went along with Prussia and Austria in a war against France. ...

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, France was ruled by an absolute government. ... He and his Austrians queen, Marie Antoinette, lived an extravagant life at the Palace of Versailles. ... The government was inefficient, unjust and corrupt. ... Because the government spent a lot of money, taxes were high. ... They attacked the French government and French society. ...

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He got married on May 16, 1770 to Marie Antoinette, who was the daughter of Maria Teresa and Francis I as well as the empress of Austria. ... Her mother, Maria Teresa, put together the wedding just so Austria can improve their relationship with the French. ... Because of all the problems France was having with financial advisors, when the American Revolution came along and France got involved, the government was soon pressed with many debts. ... In hopes that the estates wouldn't group together and rule against the suggestion, he suggested to Louis that they increase the jobs of the es...

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The privileged aristocracy which filled government lived in large cities in the company of other high officials. ... The Austrian wife was also involved fraud scandal with a clergy. ... The inequality of government voting in no way aided the prevention of a revolution. ... In an effort to fix the bankruptcy of the French government, financial officials tried and failed numerous times which caused even more dissatisfaction of the French economy. The government tried to relieve their debt by raising taxes. ...

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In Italy, against the Austrians, Napoleon demonstrated a dazzling talent for military planning and leadership, which earned him an instant reputation. ... Like the reforming despots, he admired administrative uniformity and efficiency, disliked feudalism, religious persecution, and civil inequality, and favored government regulation of trade and industry. ... In October 1813, allied forces from Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden defeated Napoleon at Leipzig; in November, Anglo-Spanish forces crossed the Pyrenees into France. ...

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Meeting to address the deepening financial crisis plaguing the French government, the Estates-General could not even concur on how voting would ensue once deliberations got under way. ... In response to these troubling events, monarchs in Austria and Prussia moved militarily against revolutionary France. ... Led by Maximilien Robespierre, the Mountain faction consisting of radical Jacobins called for substantial military mobilization, government control of the economy to assist the poor, and a systematic coercion of enemies though the Reign of Terror. ... This bold, young leader quickly es...

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The French government used Bastille to torture and kill people, which gave fear to the French commoners. ... Meanwhile, the King was planning to flee Paris and go to Austria where his wife's' family lived. ... This made Louis angry, and he tried to get Austria and Prussia to invade France. ... Phase Three of the Revolution tried to bring back a decentralized government with France governed by five directors. ... Before the Revolution, the Estates General was a government ruled by the rich and gave no power to the poor. ...

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If Louis XVI had attended to the affairs of government he would have found out and corrected the problems of France. ... The monarchy had no power and Louis fearful of what would happen to him tried to escape to Austrian Netherlands with his family. ...

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"Napoleon's form of government was the republic- (Napoleon Bonaparte). ... "Under the rule of Louis XVIII the government of France was a monarchy- (Louis XVIII). "A monarchy is a form of government in which one person has the hereditary right to rule as head of state during his or her lifetime; the term is also applied to the state so governed- (Monarchy). "The book is historically accurate on the governments of France at the time of these leaders- (The Count of Montecristo). ... On the first of January 2002, euro-denominated coins and bills went into circulation in 12 of the 15 EU memb...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ...

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In 1796, Napoleon commanded a French army that defeated the larger armies of Austria (one of his country's huge rivals) in a series of battles in Italy. Then in 1797, France and Austria signed the Treaty of Campo Formio which resulted in huge territorial gains for the French. ... Lastly, he centralized the governmental systems that are still effective to this day in France and settled the dispute with the Catholic Church which resulted in religious expression. ...

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John Locke and Adam Smith influenced phase one to me because they both wanted to reform government through rising up to create a better government and to create economic prosperity. ... The war with Prussia and Austria makes problems worse, Parisians think Louis XVI is behind this attack and they attack the king and his family at Tuileres Palace. ... To defend the Republic the government created levee en masse led by Danton and Robespierre. ... The constitution made the government a republic and split up into two branches and three houses. ... The Directory was a concept from Montesquieu that...

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During this time in Europe and especially in France, state-making the emergence of nationalism and the increase in secular political institutions transformed the European continent. Napoleon Bonaparte helped to overthrow the Directory, which held power from 1794-1799, and he helped transform France into an empire. The French revolution was the beginning of the end to the Monarchy and absolute rule. The revolution came about for a number of reasons. The economic conditions in the previous two decades, the growing discourse with the social privileges of the few fueled what many say was inev...

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Although the debt of France cannot solely be pinned of Louis XVI as he inherited the debts of the war of the Spanish, Polish, Austrian, and the Seven Year War; which put a huge financial strain on the country. ... As a result Revolutionary governments were set up, first in Paris and then in the provinces. ...

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He soon commanded the French army of Italy where he started a campaign against the Austrians and his talent was strongly presented. ... He saw his supposed "conquering" as "building a federation of free peoples in a Europe united under a liberal government." ... He wrote up many constitutions, created the Napoleonic code, made a more stable, controlled government, and encouraged education, science, and the arts. ...

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