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    In this paper the topic that will be explored is if women had a political revolution, around the time area of the French revolution. Thus the French revolution is a major and important revolution that opened the door to many other revolutions for example the American Revolution. Thus this revolution is seen to be import due to the fact that the “third order of France was able to over throw the king and establish a democratic leadership (Levy pg.280).” However, during the revolution many women as…

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    the French Revolution John Locke was a French philosopher and was interested in how a citizen and a government interact together, in times of peace and in times of tension. John Locke studied government and came to many conclusions; the role of government is to protect citizen’s natural rights: Life, Liberty and property. If a government wasn’t adequately protecting citizen’s natural rights, the citizens had a responsibility to overthrow that government and establish a new government that…

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    Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen demonstrate a growing belief in the power of writing to change the world. All texts, through writing and power of language, recommend a more peaceful world. In Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North peace comes from appreciating nature and accepting inner spirituality; to make the world more peaceful, one must appreciate nature. France’s National Assembly’s Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen, peace comes from removing unequal laws…

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    awful dance moves. However, you can’t blame him. He was raised in the ‘country’. When he returned from the American Revolution he asked for the help of fellow revolutionary Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. His views on the French Revolution can be quite…

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    impacting the nation and killing many individuals. The Reign of Terror lasted less than two years. During that time, the Revolution was in extreme debt, due to wars. To solve the financial crisis, they created the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen which ensured liberty, equality, and fraternity. However, Austria and Prussia were unhappy. They feared it increased the chance of a revolution. Led by chief prosecutor, Maximilien Robespierre, found that the king was guilty against the state.…

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    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights could potentially be the single most important document created during the twentieth century. Although Mrs. Roosevelt and several other people played a significant role in its creation, this essential document was established by the key beliefs and ideas flowing from a number of significant diplomats all over the globe. While the influences of the Age of Enlightenment are visible even in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the events of the 1930's…

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    conditions in the Haiti sugar plantations. These two revolutions are connected because the events in France incited some of the major events in Haiti. For example, slave revolts were inspired by the drafting of the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. In addition, the emancipation of the slaves was a result of France’s warfare with multiple European countries. The French and Haitian Revolution are…

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    Womanly Rise of Stature The French Revolution was a harsh time of allocation and dissolution for women. A copious amount of men viewed women merely as property and servants. Evidently portrayed in the photo below, Euge `ne Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus. “Besieged by enemy troops and with little hope of survival, Sardanapalus orders that his harem women and prized horses go to their death with him. At the right, a guard stabs one of the women as the king looks on.” However, the tenacious…

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    Olympe de Gouge was a French revolutionary writer in the 18th century. Gouge was well educated and relocated to Paris after the death of her husband with the hopes of becoming a playwright and political pamphleteer (Frankforter, 491). Although she also wrote about the abolition of slavery, she is most famous for her document Declaration of the rights of Women (Frankforter, 491). It was her persistence to influence revolutionary change for woman’s rights that resulted in her execution by the…

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    The French and American revolutions were two revolutions that had the mind to change the government and to set up a democracy so that everyone could have equal rights. These two revolutions had many similarities and differences. One similarity being that both wanted to escape the rule of their king. Second, is that both revolutions momentum behind their uprising’s was unfair taxation. Even though these two revolutions started out similarly they also had many differences, Some of the main…

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