Maximilien Robespierre

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    ELABORATION French revolution The French Revolution occured in France while Napoleon was in Corsica. The people took over the country by revolting against the Franch king and took control of the country. The royal family and many aristocrats were killed. When Napoleon returned, he allid himself with revolutionaries gropu called the Jacobins. He received a position as the artillery commander at the Siege of Toulon in 1793. The city of Toulon was occupied by British troops and the British navy had…

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    the reign of terror’, revolutionary courts were assembled to protect the republic from its internal enemies. Many victims were persons who had opposed the radical activities of the sans-culottes. Approximately 16,00 people were officially killed and the bulk of terror’s executions took place in the areas of Lyons and Marseilles. The terror was at its most destructive in the Vendee’. In this reign, nobody was spared, women, priests, monks, children, all had been put to death. No doubt that this…

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    Tale of Two Cities One Pager: Echoing Footsteps In Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, the passage in chapter twenty one plays an important part in book two because it shows how the violent revolution began in France and how that can end badly for Charles, Lucie and Dr.Manette in England. This passage finally leads up to the revolution that the Defarges and the Jaques have been planning for so long and also builds the suspense for what will happen if either of the three characters go back to…

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    Reign Of Terror Dbq Essay

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    The Reign of Terror began in 1793, in France. A man named Robespierre had seized power after King Louis XVI was beheaded via the guillotine. King Louis was an absolutist ruler, who was to blame for the Reign of Terror. Also another big factor was internal rebellion along with outside invasion. All of this had taken it’s toll, and started the tragic event that was the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was necessary because King Louis created the situation. The 3rd Estate in France didn’t…

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    Was the Reign of Terror Justified? The Reign of Terror was a time people fear the government in France. The Government was being close or similar to a tyrant. The Reign of Team was not justified because the Terror was happening when France was defeating Europe, the government basically took away the right of the people, and the Reign of Terror was ran by fear and paranoia. First of all, the Reign of Terror was not justified because it was happening while the France was beating Europe. The Great…

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    The first dictionary definition of the word ‘terrorism’, ‘ syste`me, re´ gime de la terreur’, was offered by the Acade´mie franc¸aise in 1798 in the light of recent French experience. In order to understand how the term ‘terrorism’ originated, the author immediately started discussing the French republic. The French republic already have recently dealt with the execution of King Louis XVI in the fall of 1792, was under threat from foreign invasion and internal rebellion. In July 1792, the…

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    Severed heads, countless corpses and terror in the streets, does the French Revolution sound justified to you? The French Revolution lasted 18 months, starting in January 1793 to late July 1794. During that time 20,000 people were killed by using the guillotine, including king Louis XVI. Does the French Revolution still sound justified to you? The Reign of Terror was not justified. This claim can be supported by looking at the external threats, internal threats, and methods used. The…

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    death by guillotine. If someone, man or woman, rich or poor, was accused of treason they would be unfairly tried, then executed or thrown in prison. The Reign of Terror was headed by the radical rebel group known as The Mountain, with Maximilian Robespierre as the leader of the pack. It was oddly similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The first blood tasted by the guillotine during The Reign of Terror belonged to Marie Antoinette. She was falsely accused of treason. Her death was the one that…

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    shortage because of bad harvests, and the ongoing threat of invasion from the rest of the European countries. These events pushed the National Convention to give the Committee of Public Safety more power in order to carry out the Reign of Terror. Robespierre wrote about the king 's trial, saying, “As for Louis, I ask that the National Convention declare him, from this moment on, a traitor to the French Nation, a…

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    Revolutions have not made a nation stronger and in some ways, they have weakened nations.Such as economically limited production, socially did not change prejudices, and politically did nothing to strengthen. Throughout the Scientific, French, and Latin American (Haitian) Revolutions. Firstly revolutions did not change the way people think of others. During the Haitian Revolution, they were trying to get rid of all the different social classes, that were based on race and heritage. Once they…

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