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The campagne des banquets (banquet campaign) were political meetings during the July Monarchy in France which destabilized the King of the French Louis-Philippe. The campaign officially took place from 9 July 1847 to 25 December 1847, but in fact continued until the February 1848 Revolution during which the Second Republic was proclaimed.
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) 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.
The Society of the Friends of the Constitution [8] (French: Société des Amis de la Constitution), better known as Feuillants Club (French pronunciation: French: Club des Feuillants), was a political grouping that emerged during the French Revolution. [9] It came into existence on 16 July 1791. [9]
The meetings were public because the club wanted to show the widest possible audience what discourse in the atmosphere of a literary or philosophical salon might accomplish. (This explains the choice of the Cirque du Palais-Royal as a meeting-place, rather than some smaller venue like a private home.) Spectators were invited to ask questions ...
The National Constituent Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale constituante) was a constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on 30 September 1791 and was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly. [1]
The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies (2nd ed. 2005) excerpt and text search; Landes, Joan B. 1991. “More than Words: The Printing Press and the French Revolution.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 25: 85–98. Lewis, Gwynne. The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (1993) online Archived 2020-08-20 at the Wayback ...
The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793 is a 1909 history of the French Revolution by Peter Kropotkin, published in both French and English. It was first translated from French to English by William Heinemann in 1909. Kropotkin wrote a series of articles on the French Revolution for Le Révolté and an essay for The Nineteenth Century in 1889.
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (French:; 9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution. A member of the nobility, Mirabeau had been involved in numerous scandals that had left his reputation in ruins.