Events of the French Revolution are Call of the Estate General which was in May 5‚ 1789. The French Revolution began on account of King Louis XVI. France was losing a plenty of cash and was very nearly on the state of bankruptcy. The Tennis Court Oath that was on June 20‚ 1789. On 17 June 1789‚ the Third Estate‚ drove by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti‚ started to call themselves the National Assembly. Another occasion is The Storming of the Bastille which was on July 14‚ 1789. The Bastille is a French jail which
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The French and Russian Revolutions The French and the Russian revolution both occurred mainly due to two main reasons. Both of these revolutions were the direct results of bad leadership and a bad economy. These two reasons along with other factors caused both of these revolutions. Although they were both similar‚ they also had differences. A difference between the two is that the Russians had an unsuccessful "pre-revolution" in 1905. Another difference between these two revolutions is the
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France FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION A very rich cultural heritage Architecture Literature Music Painting/Sculpture Cinema Architecture From vestiges of Roman Roman amphitheatres still in use today Lyon (Fourvière) Orange buildings e.g. many 2000 years old Roman amphithéâtres still in use today To ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz Cathedrals Notre Dame de Paris 12th-13th centuries ANNE FAVIER-TOWNSEND Saint Jean‚ Lyon
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source as it was generated solely for the use of the king‚ although the petition was published shortly afterwards‚ and therefore became a public source. The source was written in the period of the ancient regime‚ a month before the French revolution occurred in 1789 and is a strong source of information concerning the collapse of the ancient regime‚ it contains the worries and concerns people had over the opposition to the ancient regime and the third estate. The source cannot be
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French Revolution There were many things that led up to the French Revolution. One of the main things was the tension that arose among the French people regarding Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had begun to spend more and more of the French peoples’ money every day and it just flat out pissed off the French citizens. So eventually they started the French Revolution and decapitated Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Although in the end‚ the French Revolution turned
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Assignment I: Causes of the French Revolution There was not one single decisive reason that was unequivocally responsible for the French Revolution. Many years of feudal repression and economic negligence were factors as to why the general public of France were ripe for revolt. There were also various class orders of people that participated in various ways in propelling the nation into a Revolution‚ with direct and indirect actions. Documenting a descending fiscal record in the late
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Napoleon betrayed the goals of the French Revolution. The first example that proves Napoleon betrayed the goals of the French Revolution is he did not allow freedom of religion. “One area where Napoleon disregarded changes introduced by the French revolution was religion” (Beck 230). One goal of the French revolution was to have freedom of religion to all‚ including the Jews. Despite the revolution’s attempt to have freedom of religion in France Napoleon an agreement with the pope. The agreement
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Economical causes of the French Revolution were in fact very important and influential. Without this type of cause it is very likely that the revolution in France ever would have happened. Even so there are three other important factors to the revolution‚ Political‚ Social‚ and Cultural. All four of these causes together are what really caused the French Revolution. Before the French Revolution France was in a major economic crisis. There was a royal debt; the French government kept spending
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Step 1: Economic+Social Injustice One of the components responsible for the creation of this distasteful revolution was the social and economic injustice created by the manager of the French kitchen(1754 to 1793)‚ Louis XVI. Before the revolution was created‚ the chefs of the French kitchen were divided into three Estates. The chefs of the First Estate were clergies(0.5% of the chefs)‚ those of the second were nobles(1.5% of the chefs)‚ while those of the third were commoners (98% of the chefs).
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The French Revolution forever altered the historical landscape of France‚ and it’s people. The first estate‚ well acquainted with life being served via a silver platter‚ were abruptly equal to their surfs. With the destruction of privilege the working class were now the only class‚ pooled with the nobles‚ the clergy‚ the merchants‚ etc. Laying the groundwork for a more equal‚ and merit based system of governing France. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen has two central themes; equality
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