Lisa Marie Presley

The Reign of Terror: Was it Justified? A kitten desperately howls as her assertive owner restricts her wish to roam the danger filled streets. In the eyes of the naive kitten, the owner’s consideration for her safety is perceived as nothing but an unjust limitation to her individual freedom. Robespierre’s duty as the ruler is similar to the one of a pet owner. The kitten, who represents the French counterrevolutionists, cluelessly whines against the owner because she does not know what is best…

figure that typically gets glossed over is Marie Antoinette. She is often tossed aside as a two-dimensional character of history; the frivolous spendthrift who ruined the French economy, brought not only her ruin, but the ruin of her innocent husband, Louis XVI, and was the victim of the society around her. This is not true. Through the analysis of three biographies ranging over fifty years of historical study, it is the goal of this research to show how Marie Antoinette…

counterrevolution in the Vendée region of France, the government began to create harsher punishments for what they considered to be treason. As many as 40,000 people were killed during the Reign of Terror, including the king, Louis XVI, and his wife, Marie Antoinette. However, most of the victims of the Reign of Terror were peasants, the very people the French Revolution was intended to help. The picture…

“Marie Antoinette was a person who liked people, and bore little resemblance to the cold villain portrayed by her protractors” . As an Austrian foreigner turned French Queen, she was one of the most attacked public figures in the history of France . Marie Antoinette was an innocent victim, despite public belief and conditions in France during her rule. Her marriage to Louis XVI was less than blissful, they were polar opposites and frustrated each other greatly. She was wrongly accused in…

Austria tried saving the royal family but the king was recognized by a postmaster who knew him from “his portrait on the new French money” (605). The family was arrested in a town called Varennes. Sweden also tried protecting King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette by helping them escape. The escape plan failed because the king was recognized and consequently the king and queen were arrested for treason again. After the escape plans failed, Austria and Prussia immediately went to war with…

Most revolutions are political, happening when the residents of a nation attempt to expel the current government and supplant it with another one. Political upsets have a tendency to be tumultuous, brutal occasions. There is no obvious clarification regarding why individuals revolt, however researchers accept that some or the majority of the accompanying elements lead to unrest which are as following: • Injustice • Relative deprivation • State of the government • The military…

because it was a full costume that required changing into. The next option Kelsey presented was Marie Antoinette. Alyssia contemplated and she thought to herself, "This means I have to wear a fancy dress and change in and out of it. I do not want to do that in the school bathroom." She then remembered in history class the famous Marie Antoinette quote, "Hey kelsey, do you know that quote from Marie Antoinette of "Let them eat cake, [if they don 't have bread]". "Oh right that hilarious quote,…

During an era when women were not known to attend college, let alone, play a major influential role in science, Marie Curie did just that. Born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Marie is best known for discovering the elements radium and polonium, and her study of radioactivity, which led to advances in the treatment of cancer and the development of nuclear power; both of which are still used today. Her work on radioactivity led to her being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and…

Such periods were the revolution, the reign of terror, napoleon, the bourbon restoration and the July revolution. In each time his name was known, and he worked hard to have an effect, yet he is known mostly for the streets named after him. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette grew up with a name that was a mouthful. He said in his autobiography “It’s not my fault, I was baptized…

Marie Curie was a remarkable woman. She overcame adversity to become one of the most accomplished scientists today. Without this scientist the fight against cancer or something as simple as getting an x-ray would not be what it is today. Her research has helped to save the lives of millions. In order to accomplish everything she did (Founder of Curic Instutes, winner of two Nobel Prizes, discovering two new chemical elements) being a woman in a time where women were considered to be second class…