Robespierre always wanted what was best for France and was willing to do anything to get it‚ even if that meant causing harm to the people of France. He felt that as long as the outcome of his hard work came with the results he wanted‚ anything he did was justified. Despite all the horror of the Reign of Terror‚ Maximilien Robespierre was a virtuous man. He not only reacted to the problems in France with determination‚ but he created a clear program to help France in this troubled time. He also was the
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to make a new government with freedom and to accomplish this one would murder the royal family. This is how the two year period of the Reign of Terror was like in France during the French Revolution. B. Precisely‚ were these extreme methods in the Reign of Terror the right way to solve France’s problems? C. he Reign of Terror in France was justified due to the three threats and methods that were used. D. First‚ the external threat involved many foreigners
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Gaulle Marie Antoinette went from an innocent young archduchess of Austria to an international pop culture icon once becoming the Queen of France. The portrait of Antoinette by Vigee-Lebrun was suppose to be another ordinary portrait of Marie that Vigee-Lebrun had done many times before in the past‚ but quickly turned into a national phenomenon in France. The common folk were not used to seeing a Queen‚ especially theirs‚ in such informal clothing and did not know how to react to the portrait.
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audience‚ Sofia Coppola decided to over exaggerate‚ a technique that popular history often uses. Marie Antoinette the film follows Marie Antoinette from when she was engaged to future French king Louis XVI‚ also known as Louis-Aguste‚ to her death. Marie Antoinette felt immense pressure from the whole of France to bear
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streets. To defend from internal enemies‚ prominent French leader Robespierre enacted the Reign of Terror. Anyone suspected of aiding the enemy was swiftly put on trial and executed. (doc. G) The Reign of Terror was not justified because the threats to France externally and internally did not warrant the methods used. Those suspected of being spies or opposers of war during the French revolution were quickly tried and unjustly executed. Steven Otfinoski remarks in Triumph and Terror: The French Revolution
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Chapter 18‚ Section 3: The Radical Days of the Revolution I. Introduction 1. In 1793‚ the revolution entered a radical phase. For a year‚ France experienced one of the bloodiest regimes in its long history as determined leaders sought to extend and preserve the revolution. II. The Monarchy Is Abolished 1. As the revolution continued‚ dismal news about the war abroad heightened tensions. Well-trained Prussian forces were cutting down raw French recruits. In addition‚ royalist officers were deserting
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Causes and Outcomes of the French Revolution A common theme of the historical French Revolution of the late 1700s is the bloodshed associated with a new execution device developed by Antoine Louis‚ the guillotine (Acton). This negative connotation of the Revolution resides in the minds of the French and people all around the world. Although the French Revolution has contained a fair amount of bloodshed‚ its aftermath on the French nation was overall positive for the French people. There were several
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women of France‚ however‚ these ideologies were extremely ambiguous. Among many other limitations‚ women were allowed education only in the home‚ they could not sit in on juries‚ and marriage and divorce laws were extremely unfair. Legally and socially‚ women were inferior to men. The Revolution gave women the opportunity to evolve from subjects into participating citizens. From the very beginning of the Revolution‚ women were present at the new political centers of communication in France (Landes
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of modernization across Eurasia brought the Republic governmental system to new places. Although it was not perfect‚ and political corruption was still an issue‚ it brought further order and stability to several nations such as the United States‚ France‚ Russia‚ several other European nations‚ and eventually China. This system improved over time through modernization and the further distribution of power‚ but overall it helped in preserving the stabilization of many
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wrong because of the Enlightenment being a tax. King Louis XVI had total power and denied all rights of the people. Some problems with the Estates General was that the estate general parliament was made up of 3 classes. The first class was knows as clergy which up of 5%‚ the second class was nobles who were made up of 2.5%‚ and the third and final class was commoners which made up 97%‚ In this estate the Third class had no
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