French Revolution

The French Revolution During the French Revolution, and the events after that, many people lost their lives due to the conflict itself, and the executions that followed. Among these people that lost their lives are Louis XIV, Robespierre, Marie Antoinette, and countless innocent civilians. Therefore, the French Revolution was harmful to the people of France due to famine, the end of the Estate System, and the Reign of Terror. The end of the Estate System basically brought an end to order in…

marched into Paris during the French Revolution, the Marseillaise was a nationalistic rallying call against tyranny and foreign invasion for all citizens. Although there was great variety to French culture before the revolution, and French was not even the language every Frenchman spoke, from the Revolutionary era onward, the inhabitants of France somehow achieved a spirit unity beyond political or administrative structure. Informed by the Enlightenment ideals, French masses were united to bring…

The Reign of Terror and Its Impact On the French Revolution “Virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent” (Perry, 104). Throughout the French Revolution, violence was used as a means to control counterrevolutionaries, the clergy, and any other citizen or person that might wish to bring down the Revolution. Through Robespierre and the Jacobins and their use and support of the guillotine, aristocracy was able to vanish, and through the Code Napoléon the…

During the French Revolution society was made up of three separate phases. The three that are brought up are the Moderate Phase, the Radical Phase, and the Thermidor Phase. The people of the French Revolution created the phases to change the form of government and society. The Moderate phase and Radical phase can be shown throughout the French Revolution. The Moderate Phase existed to form a new form of government known as a monarchy. This phase was also an attempt for the different social…

beginning of the 19th Century many trials and tribulations really shook some continents and the countries within their borders. One of those countries was France in the European continent. France was a powerful country within the continent Europe. The French was a power house that had the largest population and the most dominated culture in Europe. With France came the largest military and it contained more exports than any of the other European countries. France with its huge influences in…

In the years leading up to the French Revolution, the public’s opinions did not matter, but as more people demanded changes to the monarchy’s modus operandi and the end of absolutism, tensions among the various classes grew. With less censorship and more safety in rebelling against the king, people were more outspoken and influenced others as a result. Members of the Third Estate began to feel confident voicing concerns about the nobles and the monarchy, and there was plenty of literature…

from trade and taxes. Nobles and clergy lived luxurious lives, owning 30% of french land and paying little or no taxes. As 3% of the population, they controlled 100% of the country. The king spent money as he pleased, unphased by the rest of France’s struggles. The middle and lower classes, without liberty or equality, were unable to make changes in their lives or a difference in French society. In the early 1800s, the French economy began to decline, causing food prices to go up and business…

100 years, France had been the largest and most powerful European nation. Beneath the appearance of stability however lay the seeds of revolution within a few months in1789, king Louis lost his power to make laws, and eventually people’s elected representative voted for his execution. The causes of the French revolution were very complex. Since the middle age, French society had been divided into three separate estates. In the mid-1700s discontent grew among the people of all three estates. The…

Revolutions, usually seen as a clash of ideas, spawn with an simple yet complex ideology with an even more in depth leader. The revolutions at the time of great liberal movements in Europe had such trends. Historically, one may look upon France following the Seven Years War as an example. The tired out peasantry sought reform amongst an aristocratic government. With the deaths of many and passing France amongst diverse leaders, one came to power, Napoleon. Napoleon was a French general who held…

The Causes and Impact of the French Revolution America’s triumph over Britain in 1783 ignited the belief that a revolution could spark the necessary 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…