Maximilien de Robespierre Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre‚ also known as Maximilien de Robespierre‚ was born on May 6‚ 1758 in Arras‚ a city in France approximately 162 kilometers north of Paris. Robespierre was the oldest of four siblings‚ and his mother died when Robespierre was six years old. Shortly thereafter‚ his father left him‚ leaving his maternal grandparents to tend to the four children. The Robespierre family was a member of the Third Estate‚ which consisted of anyone
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Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was one of the most successful artists of her time‚ which was unusual for a woman in the eighteenth century. The work she is most famous for today are the paintings she did in 1779. These were her series of portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette. Over the next ten years she painted the Queen more than 30 times‚ bringing instant fame to Vigee Le Brun (Steadman). It all started in Paris‚ on April 6‚ 1755 when Louis Vigee and Jeanne gave birth to their first child‚ a new born
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María biscuit. A Marie is sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea. It is made with wheat flour‚ sugar‚ vegetable oil and‚ unlike the Rich Tea biscuit‚ vanilla flavoring. The biscuit is round and has its name engraved into its top surface. The edges of the top surface are also engraved with an intricate design. While the Rich Tea biscuit is the most popular version of this biscuit in the United Kingdom‚ it is the Marie version that is most popular in most other countries‚ particularly Portugal‚ México
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What makes a painting iconic? For the most part it’s the buyer‚ which explains why Jackson Pollock’s number 5 is worth 250 million dollars. However‚ normally paintings with history and a story behind them are what make them iconic‚ and nothing has a bigger influence than historic art. What is it about historical leaders that people admire so much? Why after so many years people still fantasies about? Historical art has great influence on societies. It has not only been used to incite revolutions
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prompted her first book ’Married Love’‚ which was published in 1918. The book was condemned by churches‚ the medical establishment and the press but was very popular‚ selling 2‚000 copies within a fortnight. Thousands of women wrote to ask her advice. Marie Stopes became famous overnight‚ and used the publicity to advance her cause. Stope’s first book Married Love published in 1918 was condemned by churches‚ the medical establishment and the press. However‚ the book was so popular it was sold 2‚000
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by a mob of 7‚000 women‚ the King was convinced by Lafayette to move from Paris to the palace in Tuileries. The Assembly began to divide into different parties. One was made up of those against the revolution‚ led by the nobleman Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazales and the churchman Jean-Sifrien Maury. This party sat on the right side. A second party was the Royalist democrats (monarchists) which wanted to create a system like the constitutional monarchy of Britain‚ where the king would still be a
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Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday d’Armont‚ also known as Charlotte Corday‚ was born on July 27‚ 1768. With her support of the representative democracy and a constitutional republic of the French revolution in 1789‚ she learned about the French enlightenment. Corday‚ a descendent of a noble family‚ educated in the Convent of Caen‚who lived with her Aunt after the covent closed. Caen was a focal point of the “Federalist” development against the National Convention after the removal of the Girondins in May-June
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Rather than simply explain how Marie Antoinette was the victim of pornographic pamphlets‚ she does precisely what Ranke believed historians should not do: judge the past and challenge previous interpretation as to why the queen was subjected to this type of cruelty. Hunt argues‚ “The queen…was
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a complete blank. He had tried‚ of course. For a week now it had become a routine for him to sit with his History textbook open at the page where the chapter on the French Revolution began. And somehow‚ he did nothing but stare at the sketch of Marie Antoniette‚ Queen of France in the late 18th century when
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The person who had the greatest impact on the French Revolution was Marie Antoinette. Marie was known for her extravagant lifestyle‚ because of her abnormal lifestyle (always wonder why she was able to spend so much money?)‚ a large amount of money was spent‚ and funding the American Revolution also took a humongous of money‚ eventually France was declared bankruptcy. In 1789 about 10‚000 people had gather outside the palace of Versailles. They demand that the King and Queen be brought to Paris‚
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