Louis XV of France

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…

hundred men to secure these guns. Murat and his men made it to Sablons at one in the morning. There he fought off a group of rebels trying to steal the guns they needed to bring to Napoleon. By six o clock that same morning Murat had returned with the very cannons that Napoleon would use in the Infamous ‘Whip of Grapeshot’. Because of Murats bravery and determination Napoleon would offer him the chance of a life time. Right before Napoleon left on his first campaign he asked Murat if he…

I am a poor woman in the third estate. My husband died at a very young age and he left me and my two children alone. We live in Paris and France was under strict royal control. France wasdivided into three estates. Me and my family belonged to the third estate. The third estate is basically all of the commoners. We belonged to the group of poor people. About 98% of our population belong in this estate. We were the most diverse social class. The top of our class is known as the bourgeoisie which…

policies shaped the nation as a whole and changed the way the French were. The schools made all children educated and did not exclude people. If you were the son of a farmer, farming wouldn’t be the only choice with education. Napoleon gave the men of France a chance to succeed in life even if they were born into the middle-class. He was man who believe that this was the most important to shape the nation, by molding the young into great professions. Although Napoleon was a man who made laws for…

countries forever. The French Revolution was caused by many reasons. The first major contributing factor to the French Revolution was financial debt. After the Seven Years War in 1756-1763, France was left without money. As well as the country's participation in the American Revolution War in 1775-1783. Later, King Louis XVI, increased taxes on the Third Estate. About 98% of the people were part of the third estate, which was pretty much everyone. Another major factor was social antagonism…

Within Jones’s article “Modern Magic and the War on Miracles”, he discusses the reasoning behind Robert Houdin’s trip to Algeria in 1856. His trip focused on turning the general population of Algerians away from religious leaders such as the Marabouts and ‘Isawiyya, by showing Algerian’s Arab chiefs how their magic is not actually from a divine source, instead it is a simple magic trick. Once arriving, he performed his most notable tricks, dazzling the audience to the point that they presented…

necessary steps to eliminate the church’s existence in France. The committee was able to achieve this by making two major decisions, changing the calendar so that sunday, the day of worship, no longer existed, and closing down all…

so; she succeeded to marry two men later turned to kings rendering her first, Queen of France and second, Queen of England. In spite of all the negative assumptions about Eleanor she proved to be tremendously intelligent, always one step ahead of…

stating the things people could give to the prisoners and why death was the most common. France, at the time, had no middle class. There were the rich and the poor people, the rich were divided into two groups. The two groups were the church and the government. The first chapter of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and The Crisis of the 1780s and Causes of the French Revolution article by Robert…

Tyler Robbins, the owner of Gay Travel Inc., conceives the idea of sending his four best travel agents to different places to prove how romantic the destination is for gay men. Sean Zagorc is sent to Paris. Antoine Dupre nursed both his elderly parents until they passed. Now he has a week’s vacation in Paris before selling the family home and finding a job. Sean arrives in Paris and is walking around. He tries to get a good picture of the Obelisk and a man offers to help him. He and Antoine…