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| | FRENCH REVOLUTION - LoveToKnow Article on FRENCH REVOLUTION |
 | | Without a pretence of negotiation the French government declared on the 16th of November that the Scheldt was thenceforwards open. | | | The elections to the states-general of 1789 were held in unfavourablecircumstances. | | | But the desire for uniformity, for equality and for what may be termed civil liberty was the growth of ages, had been in many respects nurtured by the action of the crown and its ministers, and had become intense and general. |
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| | French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Such measures encountered consistent resistance from the parlements (law courts), dominated by the "Robe Nobility", which saw themselves as the nation's guardians against despotism, as well as from court factions, and both ministers were ultimately dismissed. | | | The Convention approved the new "Constitution of the Year III" on August 17, 1795; a plebiscite ratified it in September; and it took effect on September 26, 1795. | | | The revolution brought about a massive shifting of powers from the Roman Catholic Church to the state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
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| | Europe in Retropsect: The French Revolution - Phases of the Revolution |
| | In rhetoric and institution, the French Revolution was a liberal revolution, in which the liberty of the individual was proclaimed, private property was respected. | | | It was the near bankruptcy of the state, largely caused by aid to the American revolutionaries, that served as the immediate provocation for aristocratic opposition in 1787, when an Assembly of Notables (consisting of aristocrats), called by the king and his finance minister, demanded political authority in return for tax reform. | | | As the Revolution became more popular in support, it also became more intolerant; this dual situation occurring in the years 1793 and 1794, when the Jacobin faction, that most closely identified with the people of Paris and with democracy, was supreme. |
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| | French Revolution - Columbia Encyclopedia article about French Revolution |
| | French referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe | | | Shortly afterward, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, a fundamental document of French constitutional history, drafted by Emmanuel Sieyès, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on Aug. 26, 1789, and embodied in the French constitution of 1791 as a preamble. | | | Economic reform, advocated by the physiocrats physiocrats (fĭz`ēəkrăts'), school of French thinkers in the 18th cent. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/French+Revolution
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Revolution |
| | The clergy advocated almost as forcibly as did the Third Estate the establishment of a constitutional government based on the separation of the powers, the periodical convocation of the States General, their supremacy in financial matters, the responsibility of ministers, and the regular guarantee of individual liberty. | | | Thus the true and great reforms tending to the establishment of liberty were advocated by the clergy on the eve of the Revolution. | | | On 6 Sept., 1795 (Law of 20 Fructidor), the Convention exacted the oath of submission to the laws even of priests who officiated in private houses. |
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| | The French Revolution |
| | Born of this second revolution and briefly favored by military victory, the National Convention horrified Europe by establishing a republic (Sept. 22, 1792), inaugurating a policy of revolutionary war, and sending the king to the guillotine on Jan. 21, 1793. | | | A Parisian crowd, which had assembled to demand a republic, was dispersed by force on July 17, and Louis was reinstated after he had accepted the completed Constitution of 1791. | | | Their opponents, the Girondist leaders of the amorphous majority, looked to the provinces and hoped to consolidate the Revolution. |
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http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/History/DF_revolution.shtml
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| | France During the French Revolution and Under Napoleon Bonaparte |
| | Napoleone Buonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica, the son of a poor Corsican lawyer. | | | American Benjamin Franklin meets with French Foreign Minister Varennes, initiating a 2-1/2 year campaign to secure French support for the American Independence movement. | | | French government establishes its own monopoly over tobacco. |
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| | Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution |
| | This at least partially necrophilic orgy ended when the mob, accompanied by the rejoicing of the government's soldiers, bound the cadavers together as "republican batteries" as they had done at Arras. | | | De Launay negotiated with the mob, which promised him and his tiny garrison of invalids and Swiss mercenaries free passage. | | | Turreau, the leader of these Promenades, as the death marches were termed, was to go onto a long successful career. |
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| | French Revolution |
| | This was successful until 1799, when the Directory fell and ended the French Revolution. | | | Along with the American Revolution, it inspired reformers throughout the western world." | | | Louis then accepted the new French Constitution but continued secretly to work against the revolution. |
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| | Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon |
| | We will discuss in detail the Revolutionary debates over how to enshrine new principles of human rights, individual liberty, representative democracy and social equality in law and to establish the largest republic in history to that time. | | | The Aftermath and Legacies: Is the Revolution Over? | | | We will consider the relationship between political reform and warfare, since throughout the period of the Revolution, France was at war internally and with much of the rest of Europe. |
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http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/gbrown/hist462
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| | French Revolution - MSN Encarta |
| | Some of the king’s own ministers criticized past practices and proposed reforms, but a more influential source of dissent was the parlements, 13 regional royal courts led by the Parlement of Paris. | | | French Revolution, major transformation of the society and political system of France, lasting from 1789 to 1799. | | | Debt grew in part because France participated in a series of costly wars—the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), and the American Revolution (1775-1783). |
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| | Category:French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | French Revolution from the abolition of feudalism to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy | | | French Revolution from the summer of 1790 to the establishment of the Legislative Assembly | | | The Legislative Assembly and the fall of the French monarchy |
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| | The French Revolution in the Electronic Passport |
| | The states-general advised the king on difficult decision, but no French king has called the states general in 179 years. | | | The treasury was bankrupt after supporting America in their revolution. | | | This period became known as the "Reign of Terror," as the French attempted to remake almost every part of life. |
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| | French Revolution Resources |
| | Palmer, R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America. | | | Special mention must be made of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, an excellent initiative on the part of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History Project (CUNY). | | | The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution, 1793-4. |
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| | The French Revolution |
| | The French involvement in the war led to a financial crisis. | | | French soldiers who fought in America returned with new ideas. | | | The Nobility paid no tax so revenue had to be raised in a different way. |
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| | French Revolution |
| | The French Revolution began in 1789 with the meeting of the States General in May. On July 14 of that same year, the Bastille was stormed: in October, Louis XVI and the Royal Family were removed from Versailles to Paris. | | | Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (text at vt.edu) | | | Napoleon Buonaparte became Emperor in May of 1804. |
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| | The French Revolution |
| | Due to the wars of the mid-18th century and French involvement against Britain during the American Revolution Frances economy was in depression. | | | Thinkers of the Enlightenment argued that governments should promote complete freedom and equality, as opposed to the narrow interests of the social elite. | | | Revolution quickly spread throughout France during 1789 as a direct result of decades of political decline and widespread discontent. |
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| | French Revolution |
| | French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789. | | | French Revolution: Effects of the Revolution - Effects of the Revolution The French Revolution, though it seemed a failure in 1799 and appeared... | | | France - French Republic National name: République Française President: Jacques Chirac (1995)... |
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| | Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections |
| | Since White's time, major additions have continued to extend the range and depth of original 18th-century French materials at Cornell, many of them made possible through the generosity of Arthur H. Dean, former U.S. Ambassador to France, and Mary Marden Dean, his wife. | | | The strength of the 18th-century French holdings at Cornell is based on the foundation laid in 1891 by Andrew Dickson White with the gift of his collection of French Revolutionary pamphlets, books, manuscripts, newspapers, and prints. | | | The Maurepas Collection, Lafayette Collection, LaForte Archive, and Lavoisier Collection provide rich manuscript documentation of the years immediately preceding the Revolution, while the Charles X Collection and Lafayette Collection add significantly to the coverage of the Restoration period. |
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | Revolution and After: Tragedies and Farces (resources on the French Revolution) (Richard Hooker, Washington State U.) | | | Anonymous, French School, Screen of the Independence (gif of painting executed c. | | | British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution (a small archive of articles from the London Times and Morning Chronicle of 1792-93 designed to assist in study of Romanticism and the Revolution; also includes William Wordsworth's Salisbury Plain and an excerpt from Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution) (Alan Liu, U. California, Santa Barbara) |
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| | A leading cause of social stress in France during the Revolution was its large population. | | | Consequently, documents on life in the countryside at this time reflect the omnipresence of poverty. | | | One of the most well-known observers of the late-eighteenth-century French countryside, the Englishman Arthur Young, considered these small farms the great weakness of French agriculture, especially when compared with the large, commercial farms he knew at home. |
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| | The French Revolution |
| | There were several stages to the French Revolution. | | | Only years previously the French monarchy had appeared, under Louis XIV, The Sun King, to be insurmountable yet by the end of the 18th century France was a republic, regicide had taken place and the people, not the monarch, ruled France. | | | The French Revolution represents a major shift in European and World history. |
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| | HistoryWiz: The French Revolution |
| | The unthinkable fall of the Bourbons resonated throughout Europe, sparking a series of revolutions which rallied behind liberalism and nationalism. | | | The major socialist revolutions of the twentieth century in Russia, China and Cuba were inspired the French example. | | | It was more radical than either the English or American Revolutions, and had a far greater impact on 19th century Europe. |
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| | Easy reference for major terms in the Revolution | | | Major events of the Revolution from 1787 to 1799 | | | What was taking place in other countries and in the arts, sciences and daily life during the time of the French Revolution |
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| | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution |
| | This site with more than 600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities | | | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, With 12 Topical Essays, 250 Images, 350 Text Documents, 13 Songs, 13 Maps, a Timeline, and a Glossary. |
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| | French Revolutionary Pamphlets |
| | I have selected a series of hard to find pamphlets published during the French Revolution as the basis for these experiments, but of course, one could digitize almost any kind of document. | | | Each book has a table of contents which outlines the scanning parameters allows the user to open the volume at any page. |
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| | Revolution Motors, Austin, TX: VW, Saab, Volvo, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Mini |
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