The French Revolution was an unstable‚ blood-filled time. With 20‚000 sent to the guillotine and an equal number to prison‚ it is not hard to find importance but rather to find meaning. The most crucial thing to look for in the revolution is justification‚ reasons that excuse or bring significance to the deaths of many. John Locke‚ a philosophe of the time‚ may have argued that a leader who does not provide his people with inalienable rights is grounds for dismissal in the form of regicide1
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Dotted Lines: The Case of Basque Nationalism Course: Current International Issues from a Spanish Perspective May 17‚ 2012 Audrey Somalis Brenda La Beatrix Heynig Abstract: The notion of nationalism plays a critical role in the development on domestic and international politics. There are cases around the globe of how ethnically related politics‚ or ethnopolitcs‚ have infiltrated the international political arena. One such case‚ and the focus of this essay‚ is the case of Basque
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FRENCH REVOLUTION Q.1) Explain the following terms:- a) Guillotine Ans) The guillotine is a device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person is beheaded. It was named after Dr .Guillotine who invented it. b) Subsistence crisis Ans) the population of France rose from about 23 million in 1715 to 2 8million in 1789.This led to a rapid increase in the demand for food grains. Production of grains could not keep pace with the demand. So the price of bread which
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Improve answer noun Paris you will find some of the most renowned Catholic churches‚ such as Notre Dame (Our Lady). In nearly every village‚ regardless of size‚ there will be at least one church or chapel. In fact‚ a few months ago I was staying in a French village made up of only a dozen buildings‚ one of which was a church. But that does not mean that France is still held firmly by its Catholic roots. Since 1905 France has been a secular state. According to the last census‚ 62 percent of the
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Take me to the fries! "Little fry‚ who made thee?" In the beginning was the potato. How it found its way from the South American highlands into those little sacks of McDonald’s fries is a long‚ adventurous tale‚ involving Conquistadors‚ Marie Antoinette‚ and Thomas Jefferson. Millionaires have been made and millions more have died from dependence on that simple‚ innocent potato. Here‚ then‚ is the story of the spud‚ which reached its crowning achievement only once it had been paired with oil
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Les Chateaux Castles‚ chateau‚ towers‚ call them what you want‚ but in France the castles are very important. The helped defend the kingdom from foreign attacks‚ housed kings and queens‚ and provided a sense a security. There are many castles in France. They are located throughout France. Some of them are located in the Loire valley while others were built where the cities are today. Usually royalty had the castles built by hiring masons and other workers to do the job for him or her. Some of
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The Fama and French (1992) study has itself been challenged. The study’s claims most attacked are these: that beta has no role for explaining cross-sectional variation in returns‚ that size has an important role‚ and that the book-to-market equity ratio has an important role. The studies responding to the Fama and French challenge generally take a closer look at the data used in that study. Kothari‚ Shahken‚ and Sloan (1995) argue that Fama and French’s (1992) findings depend critically on how
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On the other hand‚ the French people weren’t the only ones to start violence. The government instigated violence too. For example‚ the Champ the Mars on the 17th of July 1791‚ was a peaceful signing of a republican petition‚ by the poorer section of the Parisian people. The Commune declared martial law under pressure of the Assembly and ordered Lafayette and the National Guard fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd. Around 50 people were killed. As a consequence National Assembly got support from
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Explain the key features of ‘The Terror’ The Terror was a phase during the French Revolution when many people of France were executed for supposedly being ‘Enemies of the Revolution’. The Committee of Public Safety were behind most of the deaths and they were lead mainly by Maximilien de Robespierre. The greatest factors of the Terror were the revolution itself‚ internal political rivalry‚ social and economic problems‚ wars‚ leadership‚ violence and the Thermidorian reaction. These can be broadly
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time‚ King Louis XVI (16th) did not listen to the people and take good care of them; he cared about the other three percent‚ the nobility. Thus‚ the poor rebelled and created a turning point in world history. King Louis had a very large role in the French Revolution. King Louis XVI came into power when he was very young. He was ill-prepared to be king and lacked the ability to make good decisions for his country and the determination to pull through with all of the policies. King Louis truly did want
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