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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
Causation in the Age of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century (1648 - 1815) Contextualizing 18th-Century States; The Rise of Global Markets; Britain's Acendency; The French Revolution; The French Revolution's Effects; Napoleon's Rise, Dominance, and Defeat; The Congress ...
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.
The women's march was a signal event of the French Revolution, with an effect on par with the fall of the Bastille. [68] For posterity, the march is emblematic of the power of popular movements. The occupation of the deputies' benches in the Assembly created a template for the future, ushering in the mob rule that would frequently influence ...
First edition Cover artist Jean-Baptiste Regnault, "The Genius of France between Liberty and Death", 1795. Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution is a book by Eric Hobsbawm first published in 1990 by Verso Books.
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.
In 1989, France celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, and two organisations named Lyon 89 and Lyon 93 [16] brought together descendants of the victims of the siege and of the ensuing repression. A third organisation, called Rhône 89, though overtly republican and secularist, also placed a greater priority on ...
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.