The French Revolution was a dramatic change in all of European history. The revolution was necessary in the fact that it changed the lifestyles of all humans in France during this time. ... The French Revolution could have been avoided, but it would have delayed the development of the world that we know. The French Revolution started when Louis XVI came into power. ... These soldiers were sent to provoke the people of France to participate in the revolution. ...

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During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. ... When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and bloody event, while the American Revolution was almost nonviolent, aside from the war. ... However, the real French Revolution began not at Versailles but on the streets of Paris. ... The French Revolution had begun. ... The only thing that ended the carnage, inside France, at least, was a man on horseback, Napoleon Bonaparte. ...

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The French endured a long and bloody series of one single revolution also, and the world would never be the same. ... This regicide marked the second stage of the French Revolution and the first appearance of the National Convention which was headed by the radical Jacobin Society. This society gained a great deal of power as moderates drew back from their participation, and a period of distrust and conflict ensued as the nations surrounding France became more and more alarmed at the revolution. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and th...

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There seems to be a widespread opinion that the outbreak of the French Revolution was on the 14th of July 1789, at the Storming of the Bastille. ... This nationwide uprising was fired by fears for the safety of ripening crops – against the extraction of 'seigniorial dues' and labour services by aristocratic landlords.8 This movement was only subdued by the abolition of feudalism on the 4th of August 1789, cementing the end of the old aristocratic order. ... According to Cobban, far from being the result of a class conflict, the Revolution of 1789 was an 'accident caused ...

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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. ... The women of 18th century France pioneered through uncharted ideological, political, and social grounds, but their work was fruitless in establishing women's rights in the constitution written after the French Revolution. ... An aristocratic women's duty was to live simply and modestly, abjuring luxury, and wearing only French-made clothing. ... In towns and cities, in particular Paris, women were the prime movers behind disturbances at the marketplace, some of...

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During the Age of Enlightenment, liberal movement became a very popular notion amongst certain groups (Bourgeoisie), and individuals in the western world, thus promoting major events during this time as the French revolution. ... In this essay I will discuss how during this era France after a destructive time of the revolution once again flourished economically and was able to gain advancement militarily. ... Liberalism in France France underwent two revolutions in 1848. ... F Betts) France remained Europe's most revolutionary country, right after the revolution of 1848 when Louis Napoleo...

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The French revolution was the beginning of the end to the Monarchy and absolute rule. The revolution came about for a number of reasons. ... What is considered by many historians to be the turning point in the revolutions is the storming of the Bastille. ... It granted citizenship and civil rights to Protestants and Jews and ended the monopoly of the guilds by simply demolishing them. ... At the outset of the revolution, Napoleon returned to Corsica in September of 1789 and organized the National Guard. ...

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The Reign of Terror At the onset of the French Revolution, the revolutionaries who felt that the Monarchy of Louis XVI was tyrannical and could no longer be trusted to protect to people of France exclaimed the tenements of Fraternity, liberty, and equality. It was on these tenets that the French Revolution begins. ... In the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1789, the government was weak and unstable. ... This was not the case in Robespierre's France. ... The case that was put before the French government stated that these individuals had organized a plot to invade the nation ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: The Legacy of the French Revolution The debate over Napoleon's role in the French Revolution is an incredibly fierce one. ... In order to assess Napoleon's role in the French Revolution one must first assess what the spirit of the revolution itself was. ... While the Directory ended the Terror, they implemented a constitution that drastically limited the franchise. ... They also came to rely too much on the army to carry out their policies, which ended up leading to their downfall. ... This was one of the great achievements of th...

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Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated in. ... The French Revolution, opened up peoples minds to enlightenment, and World War I was the first to have battles of modern warfare. ... No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. Although, in the end, communism reigned in Vietnam, the effect the war had on the world was the beginning of the end of the dominance of communist leadership in many simila...

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The total number of slaves imported by the Portuguese is estimated at around 4.2 million- excluding those who met their fatal end during the middle passage- and their economy dramatically flourished during their time as the leader of transatlantic trade7. ... France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. ... The French Revo...

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When young, Leon joined many revolutionary groups and ended up in great troubles. ... In the end, he became a renowned writer and the best in that newspaper. General causes of the Russian Revolution Poverty In order to understand Trotsky's role in the Russian revolution in the year 1917, perhaps an insight into the causes of the Russian revolution would shed light upon some of the reasons as to why he was a major player in the fight. ... Even though there were those seeking peaceful revolution, the banning of the government only pushed for extreme measures in the end. ... The effect of...

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This shows that countries geographically close to France were directly ruled because they would act as a protective zone to France from attacks from enemies and troops could quickly be called upon if required by France, which agrees with Napoleon when he justifies that the creation of the Empire is for the protection of France and for France to gain the rewards from. ... For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ... Napoleon is therefore portrayed as ...

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After the revolution began in France, he became a lieutenant colonel (1791) in the Corsican National Guard. ... Then in 1796 he married Josephine de Beauharnais, the mother of two children and the widow of an aristocrat guillotined in the Revolution. ... He also concluded an agreement with the pope, which contributed to French domestic tranquillity and ended the quarrel with the Roman Catholic church that had arisen during the Revolution. ... They all guaranteed the rights and liberties won in the Revolution, which included equality before the law and freedom of religion. ... French military s...

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The two major imperial powers that will be discussed are Britain and France. ... France has been involved with issues in Vietnam for a long period of time. ... These rebel groups did not have the manpower nor arms to go up against the French. ... During his time with 'Dobama Asiayone', he organized a countrywide strike known as Revolution of Year 1300. ... At the end of 1946, he became deputy chairman of Burma's Executive Council with the help of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL). ...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966-1976. ... The main phenomenon dealt with in the essay is the major shift in historical writings against the Cultural Revolution. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this period in the 70's, repr...

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The Tsar who defeated the French Empire was profoundly influenced by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. ... She and the Russian people closely watched the events in of the French Revolution and celebrated when news was heard of the fall of the Bastille. ... Alexander symbolizes the gains of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, by wanting to step away from the unpredictable governmental behavior of Paul I. ... Again we see the resemblance to the French Revolution...

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Depict for us in your vivid style or in your fervent paintings the titanic struggle of the people against their oppressors; inflame young hearts with the beautiful breath of revolution which inspired our anarchism"1. ... Indeed, Marinetti's close links to French avant-garde artists is illustrated in his choice of a French, rather than Italian, newspaper for the launch of his Futurist movement, on February 20 1909 he published the first Futurist Manifesto in Paris paper 'Le Figaro' , a move indicative of a partial ideological and artistic overlap between the two movements. ... ...

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Morelos took over, when Hidalgo was defeated in 1811, the revolution until he was captured and killed in 1815 by the Spaniards. ... Various revolutionary leaders and groups pursued different goals during and immediately after the revolution. ... The Mexican Revolution was the most significant point in its history. ... The revolution allowed Mexico to change the views others may have on it. ... At this time he was able to persuade Pancho Villa to join him with the revolution. ...

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So a united Italy in 1815 would only mean French domination of Italy, so the powers generally accepted the settlement even though the 1815 settlement ignored the moral principles which first French Revolution and the Romanticism had unleashed in Europe. Even liberal powers like Britain and the mother of Revolution, France did not dare to take the risk of a war which may be caused if Italy was united and this might invite foreign intervention in the young Italy. ... His optimism was his main weakness because he thought that Italians, illiterate and divided could carry out the revolution from, t...

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Another example of these great known works is Lady with the Unicorn, which was produced towards the end of the fifteenth century, in the Loire Vally. ... During the French Revolution, many tapestries were burned for their gold and silver threads. ... French tapestries in the eighteenth century were elegant and romantic. ... Traditional European tapestry makers were struggling to exist towards the end of the eighteenth century. ... The Industrial Revolution at the turn of the twentieth century brought the formation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, led by British designer William Morris (1834-...

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From England came the masterful work of Edward Gibbon, combining erudition with the philosophical concerns of the 18th cent. on the rise and decline of civilization. 10 The end of the century also brought the budding of archaeology out of antiquarianism and of philology out of classical scholarship. ... In France, modern academic history began with Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. ... Macaulay in England, and Jules Michelet in France. ...

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In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, one of the key characters Madame Defarge embodies the fury and wrath of the French Revolution. ... All people of France at this time were watchful of others. ... She seems to have it all under control just knitting and controlling the citizens of France, but she loses all control just as the revolution does. ... Madame Defarge in a sense of speaking is the common citizens of France and the revolution. ... Once he found his sister, he evoked the Marquis to draw his sword which ended his own life. ...

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This decree stated that Great Britain was placed under French blockade; not by sea, but by all France and French-controlled land. ... At the end of the day though, no one but Napoleon wanted to pay for a broken blockade. ... At the beginning of his reign, Napoleon was heralded as a hero to France because he removed the Directory and brought an end to the Revolution. ... Most citizens had been fighting since the French Revolution and they grew tired of it. ... Talleyrand was one of Napoleon's closest friends, and the man caused Napoleon all sorts of trouble to reach his own ends. ...

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The comparison between anti-terrorist systems of the Republic of Ireland and France is a good illustration of this: the former aims to fight an essentially separatist terrorism finding its expression in the activities of the Irish Republican Army (since, contrary to received ideas, the IRA is not only a terrorist organization specific to Northern Ireland) and the country is forced to combat all the forms of terrorism that exist (separatist, communist, internationalist or emanating from isolated groups). ... Ireland, although it is a young independent State, enacted legislation aimed at combatt...

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