Marie Antoinette

Caitlyn DeMuro Mrs. Brennan Global II September 30,2016 DBQ 10- Causes of the French Revolution Essay The French Revolution was an upheaval in France against the monarchy from 1789 to 1799. The outcome of this revolution was that France was established as a republic. The revolution of 1789 had many long-term causes. Three causes of the French Revolution were social, political, and economic troubles. One cause of the French Revolution was social troubles. The French society was divided into three…

life, but her love and devotion to mathematics had already been solidified. At the age of nineteen, she married a military officer, Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet-Lomont. They had three children together, Gabrielle Pauline, born 1726, Louis-Marie-Florent, born 1727, and Victor-Espirit, born 1732, who…

It was short lived an unsuccessful however his father king Charles VII forgave him and entrusted him with the order of a province in southeastern France. Nevertheless Louis distrustful ways got the better of him as his father banished him from the court. In an act of revenge Louis created his own political establishment in the same province that was appointed to him. Likewise, he married Charlotte of Savoy against his fathers will. Feeling betrayed and annoyed with Louis disobedient ways,…

The French Revolution has been viewed as the major turning point in European political and social history. The causes that led to this bloody revolution can be looked at from an economic, political, social, and intellectual standpoint. Failed reforms, famine, the Enlightenment, a corrupt bureaucracy, and a divided population are only some of the many aspects that helped influence a revolution to take place in late eighteenth century France. Economically, France’s government was virtually…

Marie-Joseph Angélique was a slave in the 1700s in the settlement of Montréal in New France. She was born in Madeira, Portugal and sold to work as a slave in New France at age 20. At age 29, in 1734 she was accused of starting a fire that burned down a hospital and 45 houses in Montréal. The question is, was Angélique really guilty of starting the fire, or was she innocent? When the information available is weighed, Angélique was innocent in the standards of today’s justice, since her…

Born near Rodez, France in the year 1787, a newborn girl named Marie Guillemette Emilie de Rodat born into the family. When she was 18 months old, she lived with her grandmother near Villefranche-de-Rouergue. At age 18, she became a geography teacher. Couple years later, she quickly decided to join three different orders. She first joins the Ladies of Nevers, then the Picpus Sisters, and lastly the Sisters of Mercy, however, she sensed that nothing was right for her. In the year 1815, she heard…

Michaëlle Jean was born in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. She spent her early years being homeschooled by her parents, Roger and Luce, so she did not have to swear allegiance to the active dictator at the time. Her father was arrested and tortured in 1965, which led to her family fleeing to Canada in 1968. Jean attended the Université de Montréal where she studied Italian and Spanish. She educated the university’s Department of Literature and Modern Languages in Italian and earned…

The French Revolution was an epoch of sweeping social and political turmoil in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799 during spreading out of the French Empire. The Revolution toppled the Empire, set up a state, went through critical periods of turmoil and extreme crisis, and finally ended up in another form of dictatorship, sadly, under the ironically fake label of equality, liberty and fraternity. A movement ostensibly directed against despotism culminated in the establishment of a despotism…

The French Revolution in 1789 was a time of vast change in France. Before the French Revolution, France was a monarchy under rule of King Louis XVI and was split into three Estates. As a result of the extravagant spendings of the king and queen, France was sent into debt. The King’s solution to the financial crisis, in addition to taxing the Third Estate, the king decided to tax the nobility to pay off France’s financial burdens. This new tax was questioned by the nobility, so they made King…

The Reign of Terror and Its Impact On the French Revolution “Virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent” (Perry, 104). Throughout the French Revolution, violence was used as a means to control counterrevolutionaries, the clergy, and any other citizen or person that might wish to bring down the Revolution. Through Robespierre and the Jacobins and their use and support of the guillotine, aristocracy was able to vanish, and through the Code Napoléon the…