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Allegory of the first French Republic by Antoine-Jean Gros. Symbolism in the French Revolution was the use of artistic symbols to emphasize and celebrate (or vilify) the main features of the French Revolution and promote public identification with and support for the cause.
The first writings on the French revolution were near contemporaneous with events and mainly divided along ideological lines. These included Edmund Burke 's conservative critique Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and Thomas Paine 's response Rights of Man (1791). [ 261 ]
The convention's first act was to establish the French First Republic and officially strip the king of all political powers. Louis XVI, by then a private citizen bearing his family name of Capet, was subsequently put on trial for crimes of high treason starting in December 1792. On 16 January 1793 he was convicted, and on 21 January, he was ...
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674177282. Hanson, Paul R. (2004). Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Ross, Steven T. (1998). Historical Dictionary of the Wars of the French Revolution. Scott, Samuel F.; Rothaus, Barry, eds. (1985). "Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution"
The word sphinx comes from the Greek Σφίγξ, associated by folk etymology with the verb σφίγγειν (sphíngēn), meaning "to squeeze", "to tighten up". [5] [6] [7] This name may be derived from the fact that lions kill their prey by strangulation, biting the throat of prey and holding them down until they die.
The French Revolution: A History, annotated HTML text, based on the Project Gutenberg version. The French Revolution: A History available at Internet Archive, scanned books, original editions, some illustrated. The French Revolution: A History, with illustrations by E. J. Sullivan. The French Revolution: A History, 1934 edition.
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
He was heavily influenced by the ideas of Helvetius and Holbach but had little regard for Rousseau. During 1788 he was scathing on the British constitutional set up calling on the French to ignore existing models. [1] He was a member both of the Estates-General and of the National Constituent Assembly after the outbreak of the French Revolution.