During the French Revolution, on 17 July 1791, the Champ de Mars in Paris was the site of a massacre, the fusillade du Champ-de-Mars. On that day, the National Constituent Assembly issued a decree that the king, Louis XVI, would remain king under a constitutional monarchy. Later that day, leaders of the republicans in France rallied against this decision. The larger crowd was also more determined than the first.…
100 Years War The Hundred Years’ War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453. Joan of Arc and the one hundred years war did benefit France. The one hundred year war was a war that France and England, who would be king. The one hundred years war was a long and bloody struggle and a lot of people died. They died a very gruesome death and there was a lot of blood.…
The Hundred Years War was a long and hard battle for the French. English had taken their land and rebels started to take control of major towns. When the French believed that they weren’t able to take back their land and fall into English and rebel hands, Joan of Arc was able to save them from generations of despair. Joan of Arc, who believed that god sent her to save France, was a huge inspiration, she saved much of the land even if her debut was cut off short due to false accusations.…
When she was around fifteen, it was the middle of the hundred years war when knights from Burgundy came into her village and burned it to the ground. This is when she heard a saints voice telling her to go to the lord also known as, Sir Robert and seek his help traveling to the capital of France so she could speak to Dolphine Charles. All though Sir Robert did not believe the she was a saint he sent her anyways. When Joan arrived at the capitol she spoke to Dolphine Charles and told him that he needed to let her lead the French army and have himself crowned the king of France. But just like Sir Roberts he did not believe in her but let her lead the troops in an attempt to give them something to believe in.…
The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe written by Erin A. Sadlack “attempts to broaden the understanding of women’s paths to power in the sixteenth century.” Sadlack’s a credibility stems from her PhD in Medieval and British Literature. She is a professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, as well as Women’s studies. The biography discusses how Mary made political gains in the sixteenth century be it by her marriages, first to King Louis XII then to Charles Brandon, or through…
example of Catherine’s desire to be loved is implicitly implied through her seeing danger in every corner of the court because she believed that she is disposable because she is feeling unloved in a foreign place with rules and dangers that are unknown to her. Chomsky uses the insecurity that Catherine may have felt upon her first arrival in Russia to portray her as a feeble girl who needs to be loved in a potentially dangerous and hostile world. Chomsky uses small portions of the primary sources to show Catherine as a weak ruler who is constantly seeking love through her many lovers throughout the film. Chomsky shows her as a female ruler who needs support from strong masculine personalities such as her lovers and the Grand Chancellor and Vice Chancellor. These men, whom she typically has a love for in either a romantic way or fatherly way, play a large role in her decision-making throughout the film.…
In the twelfth century, a variety of different genres in poetry and storytelling started to form to celebrate the allied cultures of chivalry and courtliness. Entertainment that focused on courtliness had a very different style, subject matter, and authorship. Many of them of them were composed by women. An example would be Marie de France, author of the collection of lais and The Life of Saint Audrey. Marie de France wrote during the time that Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine were ruling.…
Marie De France’s Lanval is one of the two Arthurian stories in her collection of Lais. Lanval is a work of a courtly romance and deals with issues of both sexuality and colonialism. More specifically, the text illustrates how women’s sexualities are treated differently in direct relation to their status within colonialism. I will argue that because Guenevere is English, her defiance is not addressed in this text because of the underlying proto-nationalist themes present in Marie’s imagining of Arthur and England as inherently deserving of ruling over Scotland. Lanval encounters both the Mysterious Woman of the borderland between Carlisle and Scotland, as well as Arthur’s wife Queen Guenevere, and throughout Lanval’s interactions with the two women, both women are assertive in their power and apparent agency in terms of their sexuality.…
Catherine de Medici was an Italian-born, French queen who became very powerful and even more controversial during her time at the helm of France. Â Orphaned as an infant, used as a pawn in her family's vicious power games, saddled with an unfaithful husband, and forced to suffer the untimely deaths of several of her children, Catherine managed to maintain control of the true power of the French throne in an effort to protect her family and preserve her birthright. Her methods of doing so, including hiring an assassin to kill Admiral Gaspar de Coligny whom she believed threatened her son's rule as King and her own power, earned her the offensive nickname "the Black Queen. " This nickname was given to her by the French people who blamed her for all of the ills of France, including the massive killings that took place on St. Bartholomew's Day over religious differences between French Protestants and Catholics.…
Joan of Arc Imagine beimg on a battlefeild fighting for your country, and no one else looks and acts like you. Joan of Arc was born January 6, 1412 in Domremy France. Joan led the French army into victory, until her death in 1431. Joan of Arc was rewarded with the title of being a saint because of an extraordinary young life,successful fights, and a powerful ending to her life. Joan of Arc’s unique life started with and extraordinary childhood.…
INTRODUCTION This paper is about Marie Antoinette being au courant. Marie Antoinette, a former princess of Austria who was transformed into an extravagant French queen. Her destiny was to marry Louis-Auguste at the age of fourteen after which she ruled France and learned to fashion herself; thus, spending too much. However, she never troubled to ask or wonder who was paying for the luxuries she took for granted.…
A hundred year of the war, with no rest and peace. That was what King Charles VII was facing while trying to keep his country, France together. In all that misery, a customary girl saw the mistreatment the nation was facing and she was ready to fight for justice. King Charles VII saw no lighter and gave her what she was asking for, armor, horse and a group of soldiers. That girl was Joan of Arc, an eighteen-year-old girl that had a dream of peace and justice.…
Joan of Arc A simple, small farm girl made a great difference when possibly saving the French from the English command. She is an inspiration who would lead the French to many victories. This inspiration is knows as Joan of Arc.…
Joan of Arc Joan of Arc was nothing but a peasant farmers daughter growing up in 1428 in a small village in northeast France. She was born during the 100 years war and grew up fearful of death just like many others. She was just 16 when she got a special calling. Following this calling Joan of Arc affected the people of Europe by leading the military during the 100 years war. Joan had no special plans in life and being the youngest out of five kids you are expected to follow along in their footsteps which is to stay at home and work the garden and clean the house.…
Throughout history, a handful of women have emerged that do not follow the rules of the patriarchy. However, many of these women disguised themselves as men in order to accomplish what they wanted. One example of this is the Greek poet, Sappho. Sappho lived during the Archaic period on the island of Lesbos. During these times women possessed small amounts of freedom.…