Marie Antoinette

Carlos Eire beautifully constructs his memoir in his work Waiting for Snow in Havana. Eire talks about his childhood and how he was raised in Cuba and in the United States and how Castro’s rule affected his and his family’s life. The two major themes woven throughout this work is one of loss and longing; both about a past-life taken and a future life stolen. Eire speaks of what his life might have been like and writes about the life he found instead. “The world changed while I slept, and much to…

Match on Versailles on October 5th, 1789. The women of Paris marched to Versailles to drag the King back to Paris, because food prices had intertwined with the political reforms the bourgeoisie were trying to enact. As a result, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette addressed the people and accepted the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Afterwards, the Constitution of 1791 was forcibly signed by the King, declaring that the government in France would from then on be a constitutional monarchy. Other…

French Revolution, how both have affected each other. It briefly mentions the Alien and Sedition act which were both a controversial law at the time. And also talks about the belief of our Founding Fathers and where they stand on the subject. "Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 6 Oct. 2015. Another article that explains the many similarities of the French Revolution and the American Revolution. It explains the concept of “same revolution, different continent. And…

Louis XV also spent a great deal of money on women. Brothers Goncourt compiled a list of gifts and royal donations given just to Madame de Pompadour. It is an impressive account. The difference between mistresses and lovers in this case is also subtle and difficult to explain. What both rulers had in common was that they were loved and admired by their people to whom these excesses of debauchery were acceptable, in part because a great amount of royal subjects profited by them. Did history turn…

As Martin Luther King Jr once said, “we are not makers of history; We are made by history.”. By this he means that we are shaped by our past, everything that has happened, has happened because certain people wanted it to. We can't change the past but we can make the future. And throughout time society has continued to change. We strive to create change so the world will become better. Looking at the past there are many great changes that have influenced who we are today as a society. However…

Glorious Revolution by the Americans. There was extreme unnecessary violence that occurred during 1793 and 1794 that affected roughly 20,000 to 40,000 people that were killed by the guillotine during The Reign of Terror, including King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette(King 's Wife), and even Robespierre. The government used extreme ways to achieve its ends, in which many ways were wrong and cruel. In fact, The Reign of Terror was not justified because: The methods of the disaster were too extreme,…

The 17th Century was a thriving time for the rich of England, the houses were extravagant, and the food lavish and fashion was ostentatious. Luxuries began to dominate England, as 50% of the population were wealthy or had money and were well off. If you were rich you would be at the top of the English society and be considered a nobility. At the end of the 17th century 50% of the population could afford to eat meat every day, these people were the wealthy this was estimated by a writer. About…

fall of Robespierre in 1794. Its purpose was to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders. From January 1793-July 1794, France was governed by the Committee of Public Safety. The first victim was Marie Antoinette. She had been imprisoned with her children after she was separated from King Louis. The guillotine, the new instrument of justice, was put to work. Public executions were considered educational. The Revolutionary Tribunal ordered the…

Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth century illuminated new tolerance and deep conflict. The literature published around this time that involved religion and Christianity was generally controversial in nature. This includes Shakespeare 's play Hamlet, which focuses around the title character and his quest to avenge his father’s death. After the wedding between his mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle, Claudius, Hamlet soon finds out Claudius murdered his father. He vows to kill…

Throughout the French Revolution there were countless documents drafted that adapted political ideas from the Enlightenment to create a government that was fair for all of it citizens. The Enlightenment was a time where several new ways of thinking and exploring the world were being used in countries across Europe. People began to think objectively and used reasoning, rationalism, and empiricism to explore new ideas. New political thought processes from the Enlightenment were included in many of…