Marie Antoinette

When people think of Hitler, they think of the most hate-filled man in history. When people think of the French Revolution, they think of a crazed boycott of the Palace of Versailles. When people think of all the negativity in history, it is derived from some sort of external source. This external source is the corruption of society. Many have witnessed the severities of the tyrants of history, and often jump to the conclusion humanity is simply evil, however, many disregard the factors that…

daughter of Holy Roman Emperor and Habsburg Emperor, Charles VI, inherited the Austrian, Bohemian, and Hungarian thrones, despite being a woman. Maria Theresa was the wife of Francis I, and the mother of 16 children, most notably, Joseph II, and Marie Antoinette, who both grew up to become major rulers. The archduchess of Austria came across many hardships and events that would slow down her reforms, but her power did not crumble. Whether it might be denying the ancient Salic Law, constant…

The Orange VS French Revolution RE-DO by Kaitlyn Peladeau Revolutions have changed dramatically over the hundreds of years, although still caused by a form of Government. Ideas are spread extremely different during the 18th century and in the 20th century partially because of the invention of the internet. Solving the problems in countries can be simple like recounting votes or as drastic as killing your king. These are a few reasons why I chose the Orange revolution to compare with the French…

tried saving the royal family but the king was recognized by a postmaster who knew him from “his portrait on the new French money” (605). The family was arrested in a town called Varennes. Sweden also tried protecting King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette by helping them escape. The escape plan failed because the king was recognized and consequently the king and queen were arrested for treason again. After the escape plans failed, Austria and Prussia immediately went to war with France, and…

which, among other things, guaranteed free expression of ideas, equality before the law, and a representative government (*). Fearing for their lives in the midst of an increasingly radical National Assembly, King Louis XVI and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, attempted to flee the country but were quickly captured and executed (@). By the end of this bloody revolution in July 1794, forty-thousand people were executed or died in prison (@). Although this revolution did not end with a democratic…

counterrevolution in the Vendée region of France, the government began to create harsher punishments for what they considered to be treason. As many as 40,000 people were killed during the Reign of Terror, including the king, Louis XVI, and his wife, Marie Antoinette. However, most of the victims of the Reign of Terror were peasants, the very people the French Revolution was intended to help. The picture…

independent. Why? Because the hungry, needy voices of the Third Estate echoed throughout France; voices that could not be neglected for long. It all began with the monarchs, as most uprisings do, King Louis XVI and his Austrian wife Marie Antoinette. Tensions evolved rapidly as a dark cloud hung over France- one that showered us with crop failure and food shortages. People hit the epitome of savage as they run wild in mobs raiding bakeries and stealing bread out of children’s quivering…

In the 1780’s, France conditions were bad. The food prices were way up , and the crops were not good at all. The taxes in France were up because of King Louis XVI. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were spending so much money, they put themselves far into debt. The taxes were so bad, poor people were left even poorer because they were spending their paychecks on taxes. Only Nobles and other higher classes/ranking people didn 't have to pay taxes. The king and queen didn 't care about the…

grooved posts connected at the top by a crossbar (136-137). The killing machine of the French Revolution is what the guillotine in commonly known as. Deaths of many noteworthy people took place by way of the guillotine including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. As well as in history, the guillotine also played an exceptionally important role in the novel A Tale of Two Cities. Guillotines contributed in many different ways, but it played a major role in the themes. Major themes and motifs of…

Edmund Burke’s famous essay, “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” has expressed great disappointment and disapproval of the French Revolution. Burke has constantly attacked French revolutionaries who he claimed bypassed France’s ancestors and founding fathers to construct a new society from scratch. This paper will address three main points of the assigned section which are: disregard of old system in France, reasons against the Enlightenment and the sophists it has created. Lastly,…