therefor they were powerless and a peaceful revolution was impossible. Around 200‚000 slaves were freed from there captors as a result of the war. During the French revolution‚ the people had no choice but to revolt violently. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were living a life of luxury and parties while their people were starving slowly to their deaths. Of course‚ the commoners tried to overthrow them peacefully‚ but that simply didn’t work. They had to decide: have their rights violated and starve
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most hard working‚ but poor people that had to pay for taxes. Louis XVI was the king of France‚ he did not care about people and was always travelling to Versailles for parties‚ even when they were in a bad situation‚ one example is bankruptcy. Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI. Women’s that March on Versailles in order to get captures to use against “blackmail”‚ they were important because they captured the king and queen. Louis XVI could have prevented the French revolution‚ if he changed
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the revolution. On October 5‚ 1789 about 7‚000 angry women mob marched on Versailles to protest against the monarchy about the scarcity of bread. These militant women were armed with pitch forks‚ pipes and muskets. They took turns on the queen Marie Antoinette who had shown a recalcitrant attitude against their demand for bread. But the queen managed to escape into the apartment of Louis XVI. The protest was too fierce that about 20‚000 French National Guardsmen could not stop them. Undoubtedly‚ it
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uprising. Everyone has a breaking point‚ and once it was reached‚ it was very hard to go back to a calm state. It was already bad that Marie Antoinette was using the tax money from the poor peasants to pay for her unnecessary dinner parties. Once Antoinette raised the taxes for that same purpose‚ it became unjust. This resulted in the beheading of Marie Antoinette. The wine was red wine‚ and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine‚ in Paris‚ where it was spilled
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MOI ET MA BOUCHE GRANDE The guillotine had earned its keep Splitting necks both shallow and deep The countless heads of headless Counts In fly-crusted piles would soon surmount So many wrongs to be undone Though when did revenge become such fun. Till to the blade stepped Jean De Vere No aristocrat he‚ but an engineer. No shred of courage did he lack‚ “Let me face the cutter‚ upon my back. I’ll go to God‚ with grace and all. As I look to the sky‚ and see the blade fall” That day‚
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devastating hailstorm that ruined crops in much of the northern half of the country. France was ruled by Louis XVI‚ a King who believed he had ‘Divine Right’ to rule France. Louis XIV was a poor leader and was easily influenced by his wife‚ Queen Marie Antoinette. At the time‚ there was a parliament in France known as the States-General‚ which consisted of representatives from each of the main classes or the three “estates” being the nobility‚ the clergy and the peasant who represented the third estate
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Book 2. Heinemann: Oxford. -Mr A J Field (2007). French Revolution-Year 8-Schoolhistory.co.uk. Retrieved 3 Oct 2007 from http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year8links/frenchrevolution.shtml. -Tiffany (2007). Marie Antoinette Versailles. Retrieved 4 Oct 2007 from http://www.franceattraction.com/marie-antoinette.html. -Invicta M. (2001). French Revolution. Retrieved 4 Oct 2007 from http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/revolution.htm.
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The concept of modern democracy was without doubt‚ born from the abuse and misuse of power by absolute monarchs. An absolute monarchy is when the monarch holds absolute power over the people. This was the form of government for most European states‚ including Britain‚ France‚ Spain and many others. They ruled by the Divine Right of Kings and claimed they were given the power to rule by God‚ making anyone who opposed them be defying God 1. In 1610‚ King James I proclaimed that `Kings have power of
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Before the French Revolution was sparked‚ poverty plagued the streets of France. Families starved while Louis XVI and his flighty wife Marie Antoinette spent lavishly. The ineffective rulers gambled and partied frequently and freely‚ and by 1789 France was out of money and faced a serious financial crisis. France’s unequal social hierarchy made of three classes-the First‚ Second‚ and Third Estate- was extremely unfair to the Third Estate which was ninety seven percent of the population and included
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it is a holiday to start a new form of government. “At one time in France‚ kings and queens ruled. Many people were very angry with the decisions made by the kings and queens.” (Harris) France then under the rule of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette‚ was an absolute monarchy. It wasn’t just the king and queen‚ who got to enjoy the royal desserts. Rich people and others who the king and queen liked were invited to dinner at the royal table‚ or to stay in the royal residence. While all the
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