MOI ET MA BOUCHE GRANDE The guillotine had earned its keep Splitting necks both shallow and deep The countless heads of headless Counts In fly-crusted piles would soon surmount So many wrongs to be undone Though when did revenge become such fun. Till to the blade stepped Jean De Vere No aristocrat he‚ but an engineer. No shred of courage did he lack‚ “Let me face the cutter‚ upon my back. I’ll go to God‚ with grace and all. As I look to the sky‚ and see the blade fall” That day‚
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Book 2. Heinemann: Oxford. -Mr A J Field (2007). French Revolution-Year 8-Schoolhistory.co.uk. Retrieved 3 Oct 2007 from http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year8links/frenchrevolution.shtml. -Tiffany (2007). Marie Antoinette Versailles. Retrieved 4 Oct 2007 from http://www.franceattraction.com/marie-antoinette.html. -Invicta M. (2001). French Revolution. Retrieved 4 Oct 2007 from http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/revolution.htm.
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most hard working‚ but poor people that had to pay for taxes. Louis XVI was the king of France‚ he did not care about people and was always travelling to Versailles for parties‚ even when they were in a bad situation‚ one example is bankruptcy. Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI. Women’s that March on Versailles in order to get captures to use against “blackmail”‚ they were important because they captured the king and queen. Louis XVI could have prevented the French revolution‚ if he changed
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The concept of modern democracy was without doubt‚ born from the abuse and misuse of power by absolute monarchs. An absolute monarchy is when the monarch holds absolute power over the people. This was the form of government for most European states‚ including Britain‚ France‚ Spain and many others. They ruled by the Divine Right of Kings and claimed they were given the power to rule by God‚ making anyone who opposed them be defying God 1. In 1610‚ King James I proclaimed that `Kings have power of
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Many could blame Marie Antoinette for the French Revolution‚ because she was spent the countries money on parties‚ clothes‚ champagne and cake instead of helping the poor people of the country‚ but I don’t think she was why the revolutionist stood up for themselves‚ because there were much bigger issues going on at that time than an Austrian princess. Although she might have been one of the reasons why some joined the Revolution‚ I don’t think she was the one who got everyone to form the Revolution
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devastating hailstorm that ruined crops in much of the northern half of the country. France was ruled by Louis XVI‚ a King who believed he had ‘Divine Right’ to rule France. Louis XIV was a poor leader and was easily influenced by his wife‚ Queen Marie Antoinette. At the time‚ there was a parliament in France known as the States-General‚ which consisted of representatives from each of the main classes or the three “estates” being the nobility‚ the clergy and the peasant who represented the third estate
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it is a holiday to start a new form of government. “At one time in France‚ kings and queens ruled. Many people were very angry with the decisions made by the kings and queens.” (Harris) France then under the rule of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette‚ was an absolute monarchy. It wasn’t just the king and queen‚ who got to enjoy the royal desserts. Rich people and others who the king and queen liked were invited to dinner at the royal table‚ or to stay in the royal residence. While all the
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It was 1789‚ King Louis XIV was on the throne and the ‘Revolution was born in blood’; the French Revolution had begun. The French Revolution began in 1789 on July 14th (Bastille Day) where the commoners of Paris stormed the prison‚ murdered the Governor and the Mayor of Paris. They were not standing for the mismanagement and tyranny of the French monarchy any longer. The Revolution that followed was a bloody massacre of torture and new ideas. Although the French Revolution only caused the people
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Between 1789 and 1799‚ France went through one of the most dramatic events of modern European History: the French Revolution. The French population went through economic chaos‚ a dictatorship‚ and a civil war as well as other dramatic changes. During these years‚ the French decided to speak up for themselves and they became enemies of the French revolution. Internal enemies included the King‚ Louis XVI‚ Monarchists and Royalists and the Churches that were run by refractory priests. External threats
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2. What were the short term causes of the FR? 3. What were the long term causes of the FR? | Short term- The country’s economic and intellectual changes weren’t matched by social and political changes. Rural overpopulation created land hunger. Marie Antoinette’s constant unneeded spending.Long term- the privileged groups were controlling France. The French economy being greatly in debt. | 4. What was the spark of the FR? | Spark- the Tennis Court Oath | 5. What were the most important
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