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Hace 2 días · The beginning of the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris took the Bastille fortress by force. When the Estates General met at Versailles in May 1789, representatives of the third estate and the nobility demanded changes to the voting system, but these were rejected. On June 17, The representatives of the Third Estate ...
Hace 1 día · France - Revolution, Monarchy, Equality: In an immediate sense, what brought down the ancien régime was its own inability to change or, more simply, to pay its way. The deeper causes for its collapse are more difficult to establish. One school of interpretation maintains that French society under the ancien régime was rent by class war. This position implies that the French Revolution ...
Hace 2 días · France - Revolution, Republic, Napoleon: The insurrection of August 10, 1792, did not, of course, stop the Prussian advance on the capital. As enthusiastic contingents of volunteers left for the front, fear of counterrevolutionary plots gripped the capital. Journalists such as Jean-Paul Marat pointed to the prisons bursting with vagrants and criminals as well as refractory clergy and royalists ...
Hace 5 días · France - Revolution, Empire, Napoleon: The revisionists who engineered the Brumaire coup intended to create a strong, elitist government that would curb the republic’s political turmoil and guarantee the conquests of 1789. They had in mind what might be called a senatorial oligarchy rather than a personal dictatorship. General Bonaparte, however, advocated a more drastic concentration of power.
Hace 5 días · From the days of the revolution, those on the left and right have strongly disagreed about Marat’s ideas and character. Leftists have usually admired him as the “people’s friend” and been impressed by his devotion to the revolutionary cause, his militant attacks on economic injustices, and his outspoken defense of popular violence.
Hace 5 días · Text. A political club founded in the summer of 1791, officially known as the Society of the Friends of the Constitution and sitting at the Feuillant (convent). After the Champ de Mars “massacre” of 17 July 1791, those deputies who had been members of the Jacobins withdrew and formed their own club, the Feuillants, which dominated political ...
Hace 6 días · B. It caused the Haitian people to ally with England to conquer the French Republic. C. It encouraged the Haitian people to demand an annual share of France's riches. D. It made the Haitian people suspicious of their French colonizers' intentions. A. It inspired the Haitian people to mount their own rebellion for independence.
