“Was the blood that had just been spilled so pure?” These are the words of Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave‚ a French politician after the storming of the Bastille. He was referring to those who had died in the event. On July 14th‚ 1789‚ revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in Paris‚ France‚ springing the French Revolution into action‚ and finally ending in 1799 when Napoleon Bonaparte built an empire. The conflict lasted ten years; the compromise was long and difficult‚ with trials and errors
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the beginning‚ the French saw the revolution as a way to improve their lives‚ but this path quickly turned into a horrifying ascent into oblivion‚ which aside from immense suffering‚ achieved nothing. During the reign of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette‚ revolutionary ideas flourished through the age of enlightenment. However‚ Louis made a crucial mistake by aiding the American Revolution; although it was a military success‚ it was an economic failure. France was bankrupt and the people were
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The Reign of Terror: Was It Justified? The Reign of Terror started in 1789 and was a time when supporters of the French Revolution ran wild and started killing non-supporters or counterrevolutionaries. The French held a ceremony if you will‚ in Paris for the execution of King Louis XVI on January 21‚ 1793. This was because Louis was having financial‚ and harvest issues. In June of 1789 King Louis called the Estates Meeting to discuss taxes and money problems. Then some men disliked what Louis
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Question: To what extent was Louis XVI personally responsible for tlie fall of the monarchy in 1792 ? “ What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been in the political order? Nothing‚ What does it want to be? Something.” This slogan published by Abbe Sieyes in January 1789‚ provides an overview of the grievances of the ‘third estate’ thatled to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Although France in 1785 faced economic difficulties‚ mostly concerning the equitability of taxation‚ it was
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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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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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understandably made the people very angry‚ and reinforced the view of Louis being allied with the people that would remove their hard owned liberty. The statement caused immediate riots and demonstrations against the king. This made Louis the perfect scapegoat for all troubles‚ as well as putting pressure on the convention to execute Louis to please the people. The war was arguably the biggest contributor to the decisions made by the convention and the people‚ and therefore could be the most important
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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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