Guillotine

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. Lafayette again tried to disperse it. In retaliation, the crowd threw stones at the…

“The French revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past” -John Corigliano. In Charles Dickens’ The Tale of Two Cities, The French revolution has begun and revolutionaries are handling the situation with maltreatment, hatred, and injustice the same way in which the aristocracy treated the peasants of France. Charles Dickens guides his readers to the lesson compassion and justice is the only way to break the consistent pattern of…

French revolution The French Revolution was made to end monarch. It was made to provide equality. People in the 3rd estate about 97 percent and had no rights. All the power belonged to the king. People die from hunger they can’t even afford to get food on top of that they had to pay taxes about half of what they earn. Yes the French Revolution did lead to a better society for the 3rd estate. The French Revolution helped decrease the king's power, and it allowed people in the 3rd estate have…

This is a comparison of two paintings, one by Jacque Louis David and the other by Eugene Delacroix, to demonstrate how the French revolutions influenced European art. David comes from the Neoclassical perspective and Delacroix comes from the Romantic perspective. These paintings show how art changed in the way it presented subjects as reaction to historic events. The Neoclassical period came about during a time when academic art was both classical and historical. That meant a lot of the art…

• Background o Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born May 6, 1758. He lost both parents at a young age and was raised by his grandparents with his siblings. He was educated in Paris and practiced law. Robespierre was a philosopher, government official, journalist, scholar, judge, activist and lawyer. • What did he do & why is he famous? o When Robespierre was in his thirties he began to be more active in public events, he was soon elected as the leader of the Jacobins and he became…

The City of Invention has a tumultuous history with many religious and political uprisings, both large and small. It is a place ruled by those with the greatest economic influence: the Medici banking family. In 1478, the rival Pazzi family enacted a conspiracy to take the Medici family out of power. The conspiracy failed, but the Medici family was not without their losses; an assassin slew Lorenzo’s younger brother Giuliano. In 1494 Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican friar and mage lead an uprising…

Last week some of the European volunteers here in Algeria who believe that French leader Charles de Gaulle has betrayed us staged a revolt in our capitol city. This week is known in France as “La semaine des barricades” or “The week of barricades”. The rebels incorrectly believed that they would be supported by French General Massu. Civilians were throwing up barricades in the street and seizing the government buildings. General Challe who is responsible for the army here in Algeria declared…

Summary of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy takes place in England and France. The story starts during the French revolution when the French aristocrats are being continuously slaughtered, however they are receiving help escaping my a mysterious man whom they call “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” Over in England they too were being effected by this revolt as the French were coming to England to seek refuge. This started to effect the English aristocrats…

known as the usage of the guillotine. AS Andrews suggested, the guillotine was a beheading device called the “planke” which was used in Germany and Flanders during the Middle Ages, and the English had a sliding axe known as the Halifax Gibbet, which may have been lopping off heads…

Tale of Two Cities, the way that people were punished when something bad was done, the guillotine was used as a punishment and was seen as a practice after the first couple of times; people who were innocent were sometimes killed by the guillotine. Charles Dickens writes, “‘Down, Evremonde! To the Guillotine all aristocrats! Down Evremonde!’” (260). This quote shows how the government in France used the guillotine to kill people in the the town Paris to get justice in a way that they thought was…