Tuileries Palace

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proving that fear is a powerful asset to the common people. The French feudal system crumbled in a night, with the morning of October 5th, 1789 seeing the king and queen, the baker and his wife, and a crowd of angry, hungry Parisians to the Tuileries palace. Soon after the pandemonium, the assembly of clergy and nobility created a constitution announcing the reduction of royal power and an elected legislature. Most upsetting of the measures brought by this constitution was the suppression of…

She became the queen of France when she was only a teenager and was killed by a guillotine in her late life. Marie Antoinette had all of the above happen to her. Some may believe that Marie Antoinette was not much of a leader, but she had much more to her life than merely being a queen. Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1775, born into royalty as the princess of Austria. Her original name was Maria Antonia, but her name got changed into a French version in her later life. Her mother was…

Bonaparte was born August 15, 1769. His family was Italian; his original last named was spelt Buonaparte. In 1796 Bonaparte dropped the u. Bonaparte was the second child born out of eight children. At the age of 10, Bonaparte was accepted into a military academy of Brienne in northern France. Bonaparte had a difficult time fitting in, because he was not French. At the age of 15, Bonaparte was accepted into the Ecole Militaire in Paris, the royal military school founded by King Louis XV. In…

because later she gave birth to a daughter. On July 14, 1789 , the french lower class attacked the Bastille Prison herby signaling the beginning of the French Revolution. Later on that year Parisian woman stormed the Palace of Versailles and forced Marie and her husband to move to Tuileries(paris), Marie did most of the meeting with advisors here and trying to bring her husband back…

his treasury went bankrupt. Napoleon used too much money for his military campaigns and spent an absurd amount of money to decorate his imperial palace, called Tuileries Palace, which was located in the French countryside. At the time of the French Revolution, excessive spending by the monarchy led to revolution. Louis XVI spent excess money on his palace and private affairs and used the tax dollars of the peasants to pay off France’s growing debt. In this way, Napoleon embodied a despot and…

The French Revolution was a historic event triggered by a chain of events in France that lasted for ten years. The primary significance of it being the abolishment of absolute monarchy after the lower class fought for their rights and demanded a change in the unfair social structures that have left them in poverty and made their lives more difficult than the first two estates. Some causes of the French Revolution include social disputes between the first, second and third estate. The first…

Paris is the capital of France and the largest metropolitan centrum in this country located in the the center of the Paris Basin, on the Seine. Paris is the political, economic and cultural center of France, one of the 10 largest in Europe. There are numerous monuments and tourist attractions, which means that Paris is visited every year by approximately 30 million tourists. The metropolitan area has a population of more than 12 million inhabitants, thus in terms of population Paris…

Antoinette had a semi-circular pavilion built behind the Jeu de Bague to provide better shelter from the elements for her guests. The Jeu de Bague was built in the English garden of the small Trianon palace, which had a basement passageway constructed to connect the Jeu de Bague’s pavilion directly to the small palace itself. The Jeu de Bague did not survive the revolution, and no original remnant of it is known to exist. By far the biggest change to the grounds of the Petit Trianon was the…

According to Brainy Quote (2015), Marie Antoinette said, “’No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother’”. This quote conveys the end of her lifetime and the struggles she combatted. Now, flashing back to the beginning of her time and taking a journey through the life of Marie Antoinette. This fine young lady experienced an eventful childhood, time as the Queen of France, and had a tragic end to her life. The royal Marie Antoinette,…