Second French Empire

5.1 French revolution The French revolution begin on 1798 till 1799. The most obvious reasons for the revolution is the heavy taxes that the French regime made the poor people pay it (As France was heavily in debt at this era) and the authority of the church and the aristocracy. The revolution main demands were equity, justice and change monarchy with republic system. The revolution had went into wrong hands like the Robespierre and Jacobins that caused a lot of terror and blood. This era had…

forces unleashed by the French Revolution clashed with the traditional outlook of the Old Regime. This period opened was opened with Congress of Vienna, which drew up a peace settlement after the defeat of Napoleon, and closed with the rebellions that brushed across much of European in 1848 (Marvin pg533). Much of the Old Regime outside France endured the stormy eras of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Firm to enforce…

examples of wicked downfalls throughout the world. A famous example would be when Moses led the people out of slavery in Egypt and because of that it caused the emperor to go mad and because of his madness, that is what killed him and his empire. But the French Revolution is one of the most devastating attacks against the Roman Catholic Church. It cost the lives of some many great people at the time. “God writes straight with crooked lines” is a perfect quote that exemplifies the Reign of Terror…

The difference between the French revolution, and previous revolutions, was that unlike previous revolutions (particularly those in Europe),it was one of the first modern revolutions to successfully overthrow a monarchy and establish a republic. It also led to the spread of new ideas across Europe and much of the Western world. Lasting from 1789 to 1799, the French revolution set about replacing and completely abolishing the previous monarchy, with a far more modern government, establishing a…

The English language now days considered as Global language, because it is used in almost everything. It has been used in technology, education, employment and scientific communication. This essay will include three primary questions to answer it and analyze, Why English is a global language and when it started? Regarding to answer this question we will need to speak about numbers and some historical dates, starting in England moving to America, Canada, Caribbean and Africa and we are going to…

Abstract French revolution is a great historical event of the world which brought a great revolution in history of Europe. French revolution is the background of A tale of two French cities. Charles dickens wrote a novel in which he told the story of two cities and also the condition of the cities in the 18th century. The purpose of study is to understand the elements of French revolution in a tale of two cities. The philosophers of that time awakened the peoples of that era. Through their ideas…

many problems. Toussaint Louverture, a French Revolutionist, succeeded in taking over Hispanola and was now the ruler and was now the ruler of French territory. This didn’t sit well with the French Emperor Bonaparte and he sought to suppress the black republic. Another problem Napoleon faced was his military being defeated in Egypt. Bonaparte felt as if he was backed into a corner at this point, and he most definitely was. When Thomas Jefferson came to the French with a proposal for the…

Olympe de Gouge was a French revolutionary writer in the 18th century. Gouge was well educated and relocated to Paris after the death of her husband with the hopes of becoming a playwright and political pamphleteer (Frankforter, 491). Although she also wrote about the abolition of slavery, she is most famous for her document Declaration of the rights of Women (Frankforter, 491). It was her persistence to influence revolutionary change for woman’s rights that resulted in her execution by the…

and asked her to show him how to do it. After learning he went to the tour bus and decided it would be cool to dream that he was in the French revolutionary war. So he placed himself in the year 1788. All the people in France were divided into three social groups better known as estates. The first estate consisted of the pope and bishops (the clergy). The second estates had in it the wealth landowners and the nobles. The third estate had the rest of the people like peasants and farm workers to…

such as introducing constitutions in France and reforms such as in Italy, where the Kingdom of Naples introduced agricultural reform. However, examples such as the German states where there was a failure to reach a new constitution and the Austrian empire where the conservatism returned, illustrate how the failures significantly outweighed the successes. There are three main reasons that can be argued for the reason why this overall failure of the revolutions happened. The strength of the forces…