French Indochina

performed by different events such as resenting their governing country or to be simply inspired and motivated as America, France, and Haiti were. As both the French and Haitian were inspired from the American revolution, it shows the greater importance of the American revolution. This is what made the American Revolution was more successful than the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution. The American Revolution had a key role and an influencing factor to other countries with their…

The French Revolution of 1789 is an important event in history because it became a highly influential and well-known turning point in French History through the storming of Bastille and the execution of King Louis. Although the American Revolution was an important event in history, the French Revolution is even more important because France wouldn’t have been financially stable, if it hadn’t happened. France’s involvement in the American Revolution left itself on the brink of bankruptcy. With…

intended audience, the people of France. These campaigns were only initiating his career, and with this great impression allowed him to surmount higher potencies, which was only possible with placidity if Napoleon’s trust was kept by the people. The French Revolution was at its final years when Napoleon started to make consequential appearances in France military and politics. During early 1799, France faced more a number of problems where France was defeated in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy,…

In the excerpts from On the Corruption of Morals in Russia, Shcherbatov is particularly disturbed by the fact that the desire for luxury and extravagance was becoming what drove court life and what was valued most by the Empress. Shcherbatov believes that values such as loyalty, nobility and devoutness were replaced by greed, ostentation and envy. Shcherbatov gives several examples of the declining morals of the Russian court, with the strongest example being that of Count Shuvalov. According to…

Quebec has played a special role in French history of Canada. They spoke French in France, they feel that the way of living in France is still different from the North American mentality in Quebec. However, it doesn't mean that Quebec culture is exactly the different as the rest of Canada. I think it would be dangerous for them to do based on their history, traditionalism and their deep passion to do. Canada is at the reason why Quebec even existed. I think Quebec should not separate. Canada is…

The term '”terrorism” was first used in English during the French Revolution, when the Jacobins, rulers of the revolutionary state, employed violence, including mass executions by guillotine, to intimidate regime enemies. Back then, the definition of a “terrorist” was: “an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins, who advocated and practiced methods of partisan repression and bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality” (oxforddictionaries.com). It was in this context,…

common people, each had their grievances to the throne. Pouring in from the provinces, grievances of the people all had the common theme of political and social reform, most definitely for matching the new outlook on religion and government that the French adopted from the Enlightenment. The hopes of the bourgeoisie, represented in Abbé Sieyès’ pamphlet, expressed how the Third Estate was the nation’s voice in the government, highlighting how the two were about identical. The Third Estate…

Indeed, it is important to look at the social limits of westernisation. It is questionable whether most peasants, by the end of the eighteenth-century, were westernised. They represented almost ninety-percent of the population, and most of them were not affected by Peter's decree on Western dress. Additionally, more than half of them were serfs.1 Considering that serfs were the largest demographic group in eighteenth-century Russia, it is clear that the West directly influenced only for a…

A piece of work I enjoyed was Joseph Mallard William Turners "Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a harbour's mouth" in 1842. I feel this piece encompassed what the romanticism era was all about. According to scholars the romanticism style is hard to define. We know for the most part it was a reaction against the enlightenment. We know that the enlightenment was all about realism and rationalism, so the romanticism is more about freedom of expression. It is also important to note that despite its name…

Creating reforms and then breaking shows corruption on its fullest level there is form of Revolution in its fullest level. During the Tsars ruling they constantly revoked reforms made to make changes and repress people it became an endless cycle. For example, people were promised the ease of censorship however due to Tsar’s repression they strictly censorship press liberal ideas. Alexander III after his father’s assassination he flipped his father’s reforms and started to repress people…