Storming of the Bastille

They moved the government from Versailles to Paris, where the people were. The French Revolution was a political revolution that brought democracy to France, bread to the poor, and new social order through the tennis court oath and the storming of the Bastille.…

The Atlantic Revolutions consisted of the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish revolutions. Many similarities can be found between the revolutions, but there are also many differences. Each revolution influenced the other. They shared the same ideas and grew out of the European Enlightenment. These revolutions would soon abolish slavery, extend suffrage, develop constitutions, and secure equality for women and much more. The Enlightenment was a time when new ideas sprang to life. Some of…

The 18th century Enlightenment was constant battle between freedom and order in every aspect that makes up a country. This is because an enlightenment is the balancing of liberty and order in all aspects that make up a country. Although traditionally thought of as a simple philosophical movement, the European enlightenment specifically contains much more than first brought to the eye. Politically between an absolute government and a democracy, morally for the sake of science, socially with the…

Fire is a form of nature whose magnificent power and undying energy is awe-inspiring. In the book Fire in the Minds of Men, James H. Billington captures the essence of fire and compares it to revolutionary faith. He argues that revolutionary faith is like an everlasting spark, and the spark is made up of people who have a vision for a brighter future. Billington establishes these people, the revolutionaries, as the core of revolution. He examines and discusses revolutionaries’ motives, ideas,…

Book Review Marilyn Yalom was, from 1984 to 1985, the senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Needless to say, she had extensive knowledge about the roles women played throughout history. Her book, titled Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory, lets you see the impact that women had in the French Revolution. Published in 1993 by BasicBooks, Blood Sisters is a compilation and analysis of nearly one hundred memoirs, all written by women…

sovereignty led to the rebellion of the third estate and the creation of the Rights of Man in 1789 and the Napoleonic Code. Unlike in the American Revolution, women had gained temporary power in the French government and fought alongside men in the storming of the Bastille and the march to Versailles. The French Revolution did not succeed in creating a popular sovereignty due to Napoleon’s military loss, but it created the eventual rights of men to participate in government (Panopto Chapter 16…

“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know”-William Wilberforce. King Louis XVI ruled over depleted finances, he dealt with poor grain, harvests, drought, and cattle diseases and what he did to solve that problem raise high taxes that later would backfire and cause people to revolt. There are three estates the 1st estate was the one that no one could you had to be born of royal blood, the Aristocracy they had masses of wealth and land. The 2nd estate was…

rule over the one-third vote the Third Estate had. Many people in the Third Estate saw this unbalance of power as unfair because while they had an overwhelming majority of people, they only had one-third of the vote in their society. After storming the Bastille in July 1789 and drafting their new call for equally for all men called the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the new National Assembly has their new voice to change their world in France. Thomas Kaiser and Dale Van Kley finish the…

Then on July 14th, 1789 a group of rioters stormed the Bastille fortress hoping to capture arms and ammunition ("French Revolution."). This is a key difference between the American and French revolutions, as the French revolution was kicked off by the peasants starting the first acts of violence, while in America it was British soldiers that started the violence which only enraged the American populace even more. After the storming of Bastille the people of France were suddenly in a state of…

America of the English powerhouse successfully worked. They realized that they could overthrow the government of France that were keeping all of the nice supplies and food to themselves while the people were starving in the streets[15]. The storming of the Bastille could’ve been started because of the revolution. The French got hope and found a desire to overthrow their own government from the American Revolution. In a way, the American Revolution caused the French Revolution. It didn’t cause…