Jean-Paul Marat

disagreed with the sentiments of the feminist; Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote, “A woman that is an aesthete, is a misfortune to her husband, her children, her friends, her servants, to the whole world. In the sublime dignity of her mind she despises all female obligations….” (Pauline Paul). Feminine heroes like Charlotte Corday, Claire Lacombe, Pauline Léon, Olympe de…

A good example of Neoclassical style is the painting, “Death of Marat”. Created by one of the most influential and important artists of the French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David in 1793, this painting holds a great deal of history. David was part of a revolutionary parliament, who supported the idea of the king’s execution. When one of his good friends, and famous revolutionary chief reporter, Jean-Paul Marat was murdered in his bathtub, the parliament ordered David to paint, portraying…

themselves, women played a key role in influencing male contribution to the violence in France. During a dreadful time of inflation and hunger between February and March of 1795, women encouraged men to attack the government and demand bread. Later in April and May of the same year, women supported the bread riots that broke out in Paris. Mass protests were not the only circumstances under which women utilized acts of violence to initiate change; individual women carried out acts of violence as…

not believe in. The executions were also justified by the original laws of the revolution due to the fact that freedom of opinion was a right that the enemies of the state abused to deter the progress of the revolution. Jean-Paul Marat a political journalist, wrote in his paper, L’Ami du Peuple [The People’s Friend], “If freedom of opinion must be unlimited, it is to serve the fatherland and not to do away with it.” (doc 15-a). Marat was saying that the freedom of opinion is a right that is…

It is clear that at one point those leading the revolution (such as Robespierre) wanted power for themselves rather than the overall prosperity of the French people. In addition to the issue of violence during the French Revolution, there were times in which certain revolutionary ideas began to jeopardize the religious rights of the French people. One of the ideologies presented in the French revolution was the secularization of France 's governmental system. Originally this idea rooted itself…

Jacques Louis David was both a genuine artist as well as an apologist and propagandist for violence. Genuine means to be actual, real, or true and David’s art displays this well. David wanted France to snap out of its slow decline into decadence and instead enter a golden age. He believed France could achieve this by striving to be more like the Roman republic. At first, he stood by the side of the royal family, even offering to paint portraits of them. However, when the revolution began to take…

The Reign of terror was a significant event during the French Revolution where violence and conflict were familiarised by the citizens due to their protests to live in an anti-revolutionary country. In other words, for their voices to be heard and their values to be acknowledged without the King’s authority with the acts of protest, attacks and invasions. This event was one of the factors that also contributed to France shifting to a democratic system. It allowed an individual to take full…

Part One The National Convention was the governing body of France from September 21, 1792 to October 26, 1795. Many events pushed the National Convention towards the Reign of Terror, a time of violence and executions during the French Revolution. A few of the reasons were; the execution of their king, Louis XVI, in 1792, the food shortage because of bad harvests, and the ongoing threat of invasion from the rest of the European countries. These events pushed the National Convention to give the…

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the origins of the word terrorist is "… an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins [a political group during the French Revolution], who advocated and practised methods of partisan repression and bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality" ("Terrorist"). The relationship between ‘terrorist’ and the French Revolution is only a component of the whole picture. Another piece of the puzzle can be found in the words of Robespierre.…

The Reign of Terror was a continuation of the revolution that began in 1789. Although the Terror was an extreme set of laws, they were the only permanent rules that existed among the chaos. Even though they were vague laws, people accepted the terror because it helped to combat their feelings of alienation and paranoia in regards to all aspects of the revolution. While other historians discuss the significance of the foreign and civil wars in relation to the Terror, as a whole, the food…