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Tours (/ t ʊər / TOOR, French: ⓘ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire . The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
1308 – Estates General of Tours (1308) held. ca.1420 - Jean Fouquet, painter, was born in Tours. [1] 1444 – Treaty of Tours. Tours became capital de facto of France. 1460 – Touraine customary laws codified. [10] 1464 – Louis XI, the "universal spider", created the system of royal postal roads, first roads started from Tours.
The greatest victim under the new system was the City of Paris, which had dominated events in the first part of the Revolution. On 24 August 1794, the committees of the sections of Paris, bastions of the Jacobins which had provided most of the manpower for demonstrations and invasions of the Convention, were abolished.
The present city council is a result of the French Revolution and a 4 December 1789 act. The current mayor of Nantes is Johanna Rolland ( Socialist Party ), who was elected on 4 April 2014. The party has held a majority since 1983, and Nantes has become a left-wing stronghold. [ 122 ]
The Girondins (US: /(d) ʒ ɪ ˈ r ɒ n d ɪ n z / ji-RON-dinz, zhi-, [6] French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃] ⓘ), or Girondists, were a political group during the French Revolution.From 1791 to 1793, the Girondins were active in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention.
Caricature mocking the King of Prussia and émigrés. French emigration from the years 1789 to 1815 refers to the mass movement of citizens from France to neighboring countries, in reaction to the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and the succeeding Napoleonic rule.
' old rule ') was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [1] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility [2] and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic. [3] "Ancien régime" is now a common metaphor for "a system or mode no ...
The author of the original words "Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira" was a former soldier by the name of Ladré who made a living as a street singer.The music is a popular contredanse air called "Le carillon national", and was composed by Jean-Antoine Bécourt [], a violinist (according to other sources: side drum player) of the théâtre Beaujolais.