Louis XV of France

By the late 1700s, the people of France had experienced many years of inequality and oppression with the members of the Third Estate having to pay the most. In the midst of a financial crisis, the country of France was barely surviving on its own, and the unclear distinctions between the social classes was not helping. In order to fix the country, France drew inspiration from both its own citizens and from citizens in the colonies abroad. Abbé Sieyès’s What is the Third Estate? and the…

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Napoleon on His Imperial Throne, 1860, and the mosaic Theodora and Her Attendants, ca. 547, both illustrate powerful individuals from the time periods. While both artworks are about powerful leaders they have a wide stretch of time between them. The mosaic of Theodora and Her Attendants is a part of the Byzantine art era. Byzantine art was art produced in the middle ages, and usually centered in Constantinople. The artwork from this time were very connected with…

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 National Guard.…

change the social status and built equality between the three estates. Since France created the new democracy, it also originated nationalism. The revolution changed the economy by having financial difficulties and caused the influence of the American Revolution. From the beginning of world history, the french revolution was one of the most significants events: since it developed a democracy for the world to follow. France generated a hierarchy that included three separated divisions, these…

The French Revolution had many impacts, both positive and negative. While still divided into three different social classes that were the first, second and third estate, France still followed the way of the ancien régime which many citizens disagreed with. The First Estate was mostly the clergy, the Second Estate were the nobles of the French society, and the Third Estate was the rest of the population. Most of the population, or the Third Estate, was separated into the bourgeoisie and peasants.…

The Republic of Cote D’Ivoire, is located on the border of Western Africa between Ghana and Liberia, and is well-known for it’s close ties to France which began in 1893 when France claimed the Ivory Coast as a colony. Before their colonization, Cote D’Ivoire flourished with an abundance of resources, as well as religious and ethnic diversity. In 1960, France granted Cote D’Ivoire independence, and with this independence came the realization that their country was adapted by French culture. After…

human nature as known as Romanticists. I would like to introduce two paintings from both Neoclassical periods as well as the Romantic to explain how the French Revolution affected. Jacques-Louis David was a leader of Neoclassical artists. Before the French Revolution, he commissioned from the King of France who made him on the work on Oath of the Horatii to express loyalty to the King and state. However, when the start of the French Revolution, David painted The Lictors Bring to Brutus, the…

essay, I will be writing about the causes of the Latin American revolutions and other European Revolutions. In Latin America, the countries of Haiti, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina were trying to break off of their mother country. In Document 1, Louis Peru de Lacroix describes Simon Bolivar as being “too dogmatic”, and “not always tolerant enough with those who contradict him”. Despite these, he is also described as “a lover of truth, heroism, and honor of the public interest”. In Document 5,…

greatness and France could not have had anyone better than Benjamin himself to lead everyone to victory. Think about it, the war would have been nothing if he did not pull the strings he did for the U.S. Ben Franklin contributed to the Revolutionary War by becoming popular in France, a member of the continental congress, and also persuaded France to aid the U.S. Without Benjamin becoming popular, he would have never been able to impact the war in the way he did. He lived in France for 10 years…