locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on June 20‚ 1789. They used a tennis court as a conference room. The Estates General was a legislative assembly made up of First Estate (nobles)‚ Second Estate (clergy) and Third Estate (commoners). Robespierre‚ a lawyer from the Third Estate declared that the Third Estate was the only legitimate body. They reconstituted themselves as a National Assembly. The king initially opposed this but was forced to acknowledge its authority. The Declaration of
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Chapter 21: The Age of Napoleon I. From Robespierre to Bonaparte a. Relatively secure after the military victories of 1793-1794‚ the National Convention repudiated the Terror and struck at the leading terrorists in a turnabout known as the Thermidorian reaction. b. During the four unsteady years of the Directory regime‚ French armies helped bring revolution to other parts of Western Europe‚ only to provoke a second anti-French coalition. 1. The Thermidorian Reaction (1794-1795)
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Reasons radicalization of French Revolution By the end of September 1791‚ the National Assembly announced that its work was done. In many ways‚ the Constitution of 1791 seemed to fulfil the promises of reform which had been first uttered by the men of 1789. All Frenchmen could now be proud that the following rights had been secured: equality before the law‚ careers open to talent‚ a written constitution‚ and parliamentary government. Hence‚ there was a sizeable faction within the National Assembly
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masterpiece. The book is narrated from the point of view of someone with an omniscient knowledge of the subject matter‚ who is reflecting back on the period from the outside. The book tells the story of a brief moment in history when twelve men (Robespierre‚ Barere‚ Saint Just‚ Couthon‚ Lindet‚ Carnot‚ Saint-Andre‚ Prieur‚ Varenne‚ Herbois‚ Scholles‚ and Duvernois) ruled France; even though they were technically under the control of the Convention. Palmer begins by giving the reader an overview of
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Robespierre is known as possibly the greatest leader of the French Revolution. Stalin is known as one of Russia’s greatest leaders. There are many differences and similarities in each of their reigns as leaders. Both used economic plans and total war effort as a campaign to further there revolution. Stalin and Robespierre used their revolutions‚ however‚ through terror Stalin remained true to his revolution but Robespierre betrayed his. Stalin had an ingenious plan to help his country’s economy
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Jacobin leaders (including Robespierre and St. Just) were elected by the National Convention to oversee the Committee of Public Safety – a committee designed to implicate and eradicate internal and external threats to the French state during the Revolution. They were able to maintain
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sit for hours under the blade which shed upon you the blood of your husband‚ then you would be killed yourself. Mass numbers of people were killed‚ over 2‚500 people in Paris alone. Tens of thousands in other cities and town throughout France. Robespierre and his cohorts initiated the “Reign of Terror”‚ which lasted just less than a year. This was the worst part of the revolution‚ too many innocent people died‚ this is why they (Louis and Marie) were guillotined and were the last official King and
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France was facing. When the Committee of public safety passed the ‘law of suspects’ in September 1793 the government were moving farther away from the liberal ideals of the early revolution‚ and more towards a more police state. Daton‚ Marat and Robespierre were influential members of this committee. There had been a struggle for control and power between the Jacobins and the Girondins starting from the declaration of war on Austria in April 1792. As a result of the interaction between these groups
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Even though the Committee of Public Safety led France with almost forty thousand people executed in a reign of terror‚ they ultimately protected the future of the revolution and its values through their increased legitimacy and their encouragement of fraternity and equality. By increasing their legitimacy‚ the Committee of Public Safety removed the chance of a counter-revolution by publishing the “Law of Suspects” and executing all the defined enemies of the revolution within France. In the months
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The french revolution began in 1789‚ marking a historic and important time in history. In the book Tale of Two Cities‚ Charles Dickens strives to both commemorate and explain that period of time in which the the scales switch between the tyranny of the aristocrats and the rage and revolt of the poor. Over the course of the book france is recalled to life in three ways; politically‚ emotionally‚ and spiritually. The first way france is recalled to life is politically. The government was already crumbling
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