Louis Bonaparte

One of the films that attempts to portray the gap between the law courts and France, as a country, is Ridicule. In essence, this movie symbolizes the deeply religious and ideological split in England during the Revolution in the 1640s. Likewise, the same rift between the provincial France and the Court of Versailles was also observed in France. During the Enlightenment period, this split between the cruel life of the court and the tedious grueling life in the provinces was intensified. To…

Napoleon Bonaparte became the emperor and took over France Lafayette decided that he should lay for a while, until he was chosen to be apart of the Chamber of Deputies during the Hundred Days when he constantly disputed for Napoleon Bonaparte to resign after the Waterloo defeat in 1815. When Charles X was dethroned in the July Revolution of 1830 was given the opportunity to rule as the new dictator. Unfortunately, the noble Marquis de Lafayette decided to turn down the offer and let…

should be given to people making them equal. With these new concepts floating around, the people of France began to notice some flaws with their government. France had gained a huge debt from funding the American Revolution, the large spendings of Louis XVI, the king of France, and his wife, Marie Antoinette of Austria, and the terrible taxing system. The struggle came with the social classes. Each of the three classes, or Estates, were taxed…

estate was everybody else, they remain 97% of the population. In the late 1780’s French people were faced starvation because of the bad harvest. Also, France was in huge debt due to King Louis XIV and his queen, Marie Antoinette, who continued to live on the top of luxury life. Meeting of the Estates General Louis found the solution which was impose taxes on the nobility; but, the Second Estate refused to do so. However, the Second Estate forced him to call a meeting of the Estates General. In…

the French Revolution was an important sequence of events that changed world history with its ideas and outcomes. Before the commencement of the French Revolution, France was in a period called the Old Regime, which was an absolute monarchy ruled by Louis XIV ("The Old Regime in France: Absolute Monarchy."). Traditionally, in the Old Regime, society was broken down into three estates; the clergy (first), the nobility (second), and everyone else (third). The first and second estates were very…

For more than 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…

Napoleon did service for Louis xvl and he did artillery unit at Vallance. Napoleon was an influence because he was a good general for the french who took over most of Europe and others.He had 10 siblings and had a nice childhood. He had a pretty good education. He was not poor his father was lawyer and his mother was a stay at home mom. Napoleon was 4/10 children that lived he was not wealthy and attended military school and was ranked little corporal he then got invited to a royal military…

General occurred in 1789, and it hadn’t been called since 1614. It was called because France was in debt, and King Louis XVI wanted the Second Estate to pay taxes. The voting system was that each Estate got a vote. That means that the first 2 Estates could…

Netherlands, Belgium, and parts of Italy and Germany. Although his power came to an end when Russia defeated his army ending the French Revolution. Conclusion “Harry wake up, wake up!” it was Louis shaking him. “Woah, I just had the weirdest dream.” Harry said. “What happened? What did you dream about?” Louis asked “I was in The French Revolution. At first I found myself at the Estates General meeting. When members of the National assembly were locked out and pledged to do everything…

reign of terror was a series of violence and death. Basically what would happen is they people would take people out I the middle of everyone and kill them. They terrible thing went for killing a person just walking around to killing people like King Louis XVl. It was a very dark time for the people who committed such horrible crimes. I mean people are still doing this today in the Middle…