Louis XVIII of France

During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Europe had been ruled by absolute kings who based their authority on divine right, which was the belief that kings were given the right to rule directly from the will of God. This age of absolutism came to an end in the late eighteenth century and beginnings of the next century. The nineteenth century witnessed the rise of modern industry, in which agriculture lost its preeminent role in societal reproduction and yielded to industrial manufacturing.…

government that either instituted itself or people allowed it to happen. England’s Magna Carta was put in place in 1215 because King John’s lords were not happy with how he ruled with his ‘Divine Right’. During the French Revolution (1789-1799), King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were no longer favoured, their people thought that they could no longer provide for them in the way that the monarchy should, so the civilians revolted against the monarchy and it was eventually overthrown. The…

During the reign of King Louis XIV, there was a mysterious prisoner who was arrested by Captain Alexandre de Mauroy and was later taken to Pignerol (“Pseudonyms”). The prisoner was supposed to have a hidden identity, causing him to wear a mask. The legend goes that this mask is made of iron, but historians have long since dismissed this claim. People now believe that the prisoners mask was made of black velvet (Britannica). The reason that the prisoner was arrested was never divulged to the…

British or French alliance One of the debates between the two political parties were which country should be a close ally for when we went to war. The Federalists wanted great Britain to be the ally, however, The Democratic-Republicans wanted the french to be our ally. Both parties put up quite a debate for their ideas about who the ally should be with a bunch of evidence supporting their side. The federalists believed that great Britain should our close ally. First of all, they admired great…

and its events is often helpful when determining how impactful they will be to current or future events, writings or people. Maxillien de Robespierre’s influence on the Jacobins and the direction of the ideals shaped the revolution. The history of France and the surrounding countries before and during the early point of the eighteenth century affected the circumstances that arose during events such as the terror. Future mindsets and psychological constructs depend on the surroundings of…

The Heroine of Medieval France How strong is your desire for wealth and power? If you ask the monarchs back in the medieval years, they would have probably told you “So strong it causes a war between nations”. History has proven their bid for power and wealth. In a specific case, the Hundred Years War was a battle of ownership for the French throne between the English and the French. But the more specific reasons were the ambition of French monarchy to expand their land, which contradicts…

considerable amount of influence over Louis XIV and his court. Accordingly, jealous contemporaries were suspicious of Maintenon’s motivations and often viewed her as an all-powerful figure with a dangerous amount influence over Louis XIV. However, their fears were unfounded because both the king and society restricted her influence because of her inferior status as an ignoble woman. Prior to the death of Marie Therese, the relationship between the Madame de Maintenon and Louis XIV was…

The French Revolution was a time of violence, chaos, and war. Through it all, one machine of destruction brought fear to almost every human being in France: the guillotine. Despite the bloodshed brought about by this large contraption, there is one person in particular whom the guillotine benefitted by supplying her with limitless heads and bodies. By using these severed body parts, Marie Tussaud created molds of the bodies of those taken by the relentless guillotine and put them on display in…

French History through the storming of Bastille and the execution of King Louis. Although the American Revolution was an important event in history, the French Revolution is even more important because France wouldn’t have been financially stable, if it hadn’t happened. France’s involvement in the American Revolution left itself on the brink of bankruptcy. With King Louis XVI in power, and some extravagant spending, France did go into bankruptcy. For the last few decades, the cereal harvests…

bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality” (oxforddictionaries.com). It was in this context, during the period of violence known as The Reign of Terror, that a new term emerged from Robespierre’s a speech on the trial of Louis XVI in late 1792. The king, “enemy of the people”, he argued must be judged as a foreign enemy who conspired against…