Education in France

The unfair distribution of powers, rights, and wealth between the citizens of France was the main cause of the Revolution. Prior to the revolution, the Kingdom of France practiced the Ancient Regime, a political and social system “based on the concentration of all political, social and economic power between three classes, the monarchy, the clergy, and the aristocracy” (Bastille). Citizens of France were separated into three distinct estates. The First Estate consisted the French Catholic Clergy…

are bad leadership because King Louis XVI made the government sink into debt, unequal taxes because the peasants were taxed with nobility, church, and government taxes, and lastly enlightenment ideas because the bourgeoisie wanted more freedom. In France around the 1700’s the three estates (Clergy, Nobles, Bourgeoisie/Peasants) faced 3 different kinds of oppression, political, economic, and social oppression. The first estate known as the Clergy or the Catholic Church did not like the…

into one massive country. He restored France to its former state of order. But there is also the fact of the matter that he killed possibly millions of people. So a person can not pompously state that Napoleon was a hero or a villain, because he was both or close to it anyways, he was a necessary evil. Napoleon's dream and goal was conquered the entirety of Europe and unify it as one great country of France. This would have been an amazing thing for France they would have peace and power over…

During the French Revolution, France realized they had a very weak military. Through strategic, economic, and political changes, France took action and became one of the most dominant military powers in all of Europe. In the text underneath I am going to describe and analyze the seven presented documents and how they support one another. When France undertook these ideas, they quickly understood that the key to a strong military were the roots behind it. In France the size of their army grew…

economic, social, and political changes that the impoverished masses in France so desired. Famine, disease, and poverty swept through pre-revolutionary France. These factors entwined with the despot political system inflamed a decade long revolution and catapulted France from a feudal society into a dominant world force. The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of radical changes for the country of France the same way the Massachusetts’ “shot heard around the world” on…

In summary, Dante experienced the issues coming from the battle between Philip IV's nationalist power (King from 1285-1314, who, during the war of the so-called Sicilian Vespers helped the Anjou against the Aragonese) and the papacy's universal power that in the while had degenerated more and more until the French King decided to tax the income of the ecclesiastics, provoking Pope Boniface VIII's ire, who, in contrast, published some important bulls trying to limit Philip's powers. In fact, one…

During the 19th century, France had a wide variety of government types - four dictatorships, two constitutional monarchies, two empires, and three republics. The French government was very unreliable and ever-changing. Directly after the French Revolution, a two house legislative body formed. This expanded power to the bourgeois. However, later power was returned solely to kings. After two kings, Louis XVII and Charles X, both of who were very disliked, power was transferred to Louis Philippe.…

During the French Revolution, the people killed off King Louis XVI and abolished the position of king. A few years Napoleon, once a general for a French army, crowned himself king. Everything that the people of France worked for to get the hierarchy abolished just crumbled down and there was really no way in stopping another king to come under power. Another example of a revolution weakening a nation politically is during the Scientific Revolution. When science…

The 18th Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte contained the timeline of the French revolution. The first revolution took place in 1789-1799 wherein the bourgeoisie overthrew the Bourbon dynasty. This is also the time when Napoleon Bonaparte ousted the constitutional government that was established by the bourgeoisie class. After Bonaparte overthrew the government, he held the power himself. Meanwhile, the second revolution occurred when the revolt against Louis Philippe took place. In the second…

were absolute monarchs and had full control of their administrations. The French revolution dealt a major blow to these leaders and thus begun the French revolutionary wars in which enemies of France such as Prussia, Austria, Holland, and Great Britain regularly formed coalitions and declared war on France. Napoleon…