France was ruled by King Louis XVI. He was an absolute monarch‚ meaning he had power over everything. My father was one of Louis’ closest friends‚ and he had told me when I was a young girl‚ that he was a very selfish man. King Louis and his wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ taxed the citizens of France and used the money on their own luxuries. However‚ they became bankrupt‚ causing France to be in even more of a financial crisis. My father also told me stories of how King Louis had caused most of France’s financial
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questioning the validity of his work. He was dismissed shortly thereafter‚ leaving France’s economic prospects even grimmer than before. • Louis and Marie Antoinette’s indulgent fashion that so irked the common folk‚ mammoth costs associated with the upkeep of King Louis XVI’s extravagant palace at Versailles and the frivolous spending of the queen‚ Marie-Antoinette‚ did little to relieve the growing debt. Antoinette’s self-indulgent tendencies became a symbol of royal excess and extravagance. A proportion
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Enlightenment 18th century Science and reason Philosophers believed in: 1. Reason 2. Nature 3. Happiness 4. Progress 5. Liberty Salon A meeting‚ held by an important hostess‚ made up of distinguished writers‚ poets‚ artists. Hostess: Marie Therese de Geoffrin Seven Years War: Also known as the French and Indian War Issues: 1) Duel of Britain and France for colonies trade and sea power 2) Duel of Prussia and Austria for territory and military power King of Prussia: Frederick
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Sidonie was bravely loyal to Queen until the last moment. Sidonie Larborde is an Austrian orphan‚ who was recruited as a young reader to the Marie Antoinette (the Queen of France) not because of her intellectual but only because of her voice. Unfortunately‚ the period that Sidonie working at the Versaille is when France and its monarchy are at is most dangerous‚ unstable and chaotic period. Despite
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5% 2nd Estate-NOBLES—1.5% 3rd Estate-bourgeoisie‚ peasants‚ & city workers 2. Causes of financial crisis in France -warsloans with interest -building of the Palace at Versailles by King Louis XIV -lavish lifestyle of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette -bad harvestsincrease prices -failure to reform -1st and 2nd Estate don’t pay taxes 3. What priviledge do the 1st and 2nd Estate share? THEY DON’T PAY TAXES 4. The 3rd Estate broke away and formed the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 5. The National
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The Causes of the French Revolution The French Revolution was a huge part of French history and things would be very different today had it not happened. There were many causes for the revolution‚ and all contributed to the slaughters and governmental decisions that occurred because of it. The nation of France was in a grim state before the revolution. Many historians say the Ancien Regime had many main factors contributing to the start of revolution‚ as well as unmanageable national debt and economic
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against the revolution and new government‚ the most effective way is thought to be that of violence.[Footnote] In order to abolish the monarchy‚ at the time the Bourbon Royal family‚ during the French Revolution‚ the family of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were imprisoned.[Footnote] After quite some time they were stripped of all their power‚ leaders of the revolution declared they were no longer fit to rule.[Footnote] It wasn’t soon after this that King Louis XVI was executed by Guillotine (the
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The Age of the Enlightenment‚ an intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth century‚ radically altered the political‚ philosophical‚ artistic‚ and academic standards of the Western world. Themes of rational thought‚ scientific reasoning‚ progress‚ liberty and equality infiltrated many domains of the public sphere. However‚ in retrospect‚ the movement is in many ways a paradox‚ for it primarily advocated and benefited traditional male-dominated spaces. Although a few “exceptional” women
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<b>THE FRENCH REVOLUTION</b><br>The French Revolution was effected and caused by many things and people. Some people that had to do with the French Revolution were‚ Louis XVI‚ and‚ Marie Antoinette. Marie played an active role in the Revolution but suffered for her royalist sympathies. King Louis XVI also played an important role in the Revolution‚ seeing as how he was the king and all. When Louis XVI came to be King‚ he inherited a France in debt‚ and he was left with no choice but to raise taxes
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Compare the use of location and the environment in The Great Gatsby and The Go-Between F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between are two novels set in very different places in the world‚ but both show how love between different classes is doomed to failure. The environment is used to depict the lives of the people around it‚ such as the opulence and decadence in East Egg‚ and a dull‚ lifeless place in the valley of ashes. Both Fitzgerald and Hartley use the environment
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