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Hace 5 días · French Revolution, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
- The New Regime
The complicated administrative system of the ancien régime...
- Counterrevolution, Regicide, Terror
In the second phase of the war (September 1792–April 1793),...
- Events of 1789
The Estates-General met at Versailles on May 5, 1789. They...
- July Revolution
July Revolution, (1830), insurrection that brought...
- The New Regime
Hace 2 días · The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
Hace 5 días · French Revolutionary wars, title given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799. It thus comprises the first seven years of the period of warfare that was continued through the Napoleonic Wars until Napoleon ’s abdication in 1814, with a year of interruption under the peace of Amiens ...
Hace 1 día · Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–99), served as first consul of France (1799–1804), and was the first emperor of France (1804–14/15). Today Napoleon is widely considered one of the greatest military generals in history.
13 de may. de 2024 · The French Revolution has often been perceived as the dawn of the modern era, the divide between the ancien r(r)gime and the contemporary world. It is an undeniably crucial event in the history of Western Civilization. Yet it is also a confusing and oft-misunderstood event.
1 de may. de 2024 · Finding Background Information. The following sources provide overviews of ideas, people, and events in the history of the French Revolution. They are a quick way to find out the basic facts and current points of debate.
Hace 5 días · It was a time of unprecedented, cataclysmic events, vertiginous reversals of fortune, and of contrasts far more dramatic than in any novel, even one by Dickens. It was also the moment at which the modern political world was invented, a turning point, not just in the history of France, but in that of the wider world.
