1793- 1794 after the strong onset of the French Revolution. It was a time of fierceness and anger‚ resulting in the deaths of thousands of people living in France at that period of time. The terror followed the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1793 and was incited by the conflict between the Girondins and Jacobins. Soon after‚ King Louis’ wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ was executed in the guillotine- the new form of constitutionalist justice. Many of the people who were executed during this period
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their regular meeting place. The third estate acknowledged the fact that they were locked out and moved into an indoor tennis court to create a constitution‚ which would allow them to have equalized rights. They promised each other not to leave until France had a new
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Absolutism in France left Louis XVI being the ‘divine ruler’ over France at the time‚ which was a minor factor contributing to the origins of the French Revolution due to his inability to cope with the momentous events which continued to unfold around him. However‚ the financial crisis was a primary short-term cause of the French Revolution due to the increasing amount of deficit the government was building which had a knock on effect on the French public. Furthermore‚ the financial crisis is only
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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 out to be quite a failure. Three failures of the French Revolution were that France was still under the rule of one man‚ the
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Film Analysis Paper “Ridicule” Desperate for a solution to the sickness and death plaguing his village‚ Baron Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy journeys to the palace of Versailles in hopes of receiving monetary support and assistance from King Louis XVI. Along his journey‚ Ponceludon comes to know and acquire the support of Marquis de Bellegarde‚ who conveys to him the importance of wit‚ and stresses that wit‚ and wit alone‚ is the only way that would allow him to make a name for himself at court
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best known as Marie Antoinette‚ was the last queen of France who helped with the provocation of the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and the overthrown of the French Monarchy of that moment in August 1792. She was born in November 2‚ 1775 and executed in October 16‚ 1793.She is quite famous in the present with the quote “Let them eat cake”‚ although there is no evidence she actually said it. She was married to the king Luis XVI. In 1776‚ she gave birth to Marie-Therese-Charlotte‚ because
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To take actions into their hands‚ in June 1789 the third estate wanting to represent the people of France‚ declared themselves the National Assembly. Fearing that the king planned to exclude them‚ the Parisians pledged the Tennis Court Oath in which they swore never to stop their revolution until they had established a just constitution in France. Although rumors had it that the king Louis XVI wanted to disintegrate the National Assembly‚ on July 14‚ 1789 more than eight-hundred Parisians marched
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Furthermore‚ the harvests had been mostly unsuccessful‚ which lead to the grain prices being elevated. And interestingly‚ while many people believed Marie Antoinette was responsible for the famous quote “Let them eat cake...” referring to the peasants of France who were not able to even purchase bread‚ this in fact is a fallacy. She was only 10 years old when philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau documented the statement said by “a great princess” in her work. Even still‚ people use this phrase to illustrate
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Pré-Révolution(Pre-Revolution)- The date is June 11th‚ 1775. Amidst a crumbling financial status‚ France is coronating its new king‚ whose name is Louis XVI. The degrading economy was the drastic result from both the Seven Years’ War‚ and the American Revolution. King Louis XVI‚ who is a timid person‚ isn’t really sure how to combat the economic problem. His wife Marie Antoinette‚ didn’t help with the debt‚ but instead spent her time “ordering hundreds of gowns‚ trying out elaborate hairstyles and
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The French Revolution is a period in the History of France‚ covering the years of 1789-1799‚ in which the monarchy was overthrown and radical restricting was forced upon the Roman Catholic Church. The French Revolution had many causes and affected the entire world in different ways. Some of the main causes of the revolution were the influence of the Enlightenment thinkers‚ the involvement of France in foreign revolutionary wars‚ the fall of the French Monarchy‚ the unmanageable national debt‚ and
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