National Assembly of France

by the underprivileged society of France with the intent of reworking the nation and sharing equal rights. While Voltaire was not the main contributor in stirring the rebellion, he did play an important role in defining what it was that the peasants wanted and reminding them that they deserved more than what they had previously been given. After the French Revolution was won, the rules of the country had to be rewritten. Voltaire’s works were useful to the National Convention on how to write…

The period of 1792 to 1795, or commonly regarded as the ‘Reign of Terror’ served as a vital turning point for the French Revolution and effectively, the future of France. This period of time was distinguished by the fall of monarchy and the creation of the National Convention. Additionally. the Reign of Terror demonstrated more brutal punishments for counter revolutionaries and foreign enemies, in the hunt for freedom and liberty by French revolutionaries. The events that would take place under…

backbone of European history, the French Revolution was an important sequence of events that changed world history with its ideas and outcomes. Before the commencement of the French Revolution, France was in a period called the Old Regime, which was an absolute monarchy ruled by Louis XIV ("The Old Regime in France: Absolute Monarchy."). Traditionally, in the Old Regime, society was broken down into three estates; the clergy (first), the nobility (second), and everyone else (third). The first…

too powerful. Furthermore, Montesquieu argued that political laws had to vary because not every law could apply to every person at every time. The idea of having separation of powers, most likely influenced others around him and drew a pattern for France and other countries in the world to create laws that varied from city to city or from state to state. The Spirit of the laws helped to lay the foundations for the subsequent democratic process that began with the French…

equally and are given the same opportunities and rights; no one is given special privileges simply due to their ethnicity, opinions, background, education, or social standing. Although this is relatively common in the 21st century, countries such as France in the late 1700’s had a difficult time achieving it due to a succession of abusive leaders. After many years under a feudal system, the people of French society began to think that equality of rights was established by nature and not by the…

peasants of France. They didn’t have many rights or much money and their problems were ignored (Pipe, Jim 10). The main cause of the French Revolution was the structural inequality and unfair rights. This lead the Third Estate to believe that the Second and First Estates were enjoying life at the expense of their own lives and well being (The French Revolution 1- 2). When the Third Estate were tiered of not being heard and no support from higher classes, they decided to start the National…

moment in the growth of nationalism. Violence and fear had been growing in Paris. On July 13, 1789 rumours that the King was planning an attack on the National Assembly spread,2 and this panicked the Parisians.3 A group of craftsmen and salesmen convened, and they went to the Invalides to steal weapons.4 The Invalides refers to The Hôtel national des Invalides, a set of buildings in Paris.5 At the Invalides they managed to steal about twenty-eight thousand rifles, but they did not find any…

change the social status and built equality between the three estates. Since France created the new democracy, it also originated nationalism. The revolution changed the economy by having financial difficulties and caused the influence of the American Revolution. From the beginning of world history, the french revolution was one of the most significants events: since it developed a democracy for the world to follow. France generated a hierarchy that included three separated divisions, these…

Bastille was an incident that occurred in the afternoon of July 14th 1789 in Paris, France. The Bastille was a political prison represented by royal authorities in Paris in which there were only seven inmates in at the time of its storming. The political prison and armory was seen as a symbol of monarchy’s abuse of power. Its fall was the significant start of the French revolution. During Louis XVI’s reign, France was faced with an economic crisis due to the cost of intervening in the American…

significant events during the revolution created legacies that continue to affect lives today (Blaufarb 1-2). The legacies of the French Revolution illustrate the impact that the ideologies and events of the revolution in France and in Europe, and the legacies also changed the way France and surrounding countries viewed many situations and incidents. In contrast to the English and American Revolutions, the French Revolution went through a series of phases, which could all be called revolutions…