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June 25: Louis XVI returns to Paris. The Assembly suspends his functions until further notice. July 5: Emperor Leopold II issues the Padua Circular calling on the royal houses of Europe to come to the aid of Louis XVI, his brother-in-law. July 9: The Assembly decrees that émigrés must return to France within two months, or forfeit their property.
Upon the refusal of the members of the Parlement, Louis XVI tried to use his absolute power to subjugate them by every means: enforcing in many occasions the registration of his reforms via Lit de justice (6 August 1787, 19 November 1787, and 8 May 1788), exiling all Parlement magistrates to Troyes as a punishment on 15 August 1787, prohibiting ...
Louis XVI visits Cherbourg to see the construction site of the dam and the arsenal. 1789: 14 July: The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille. 1793: 21 January: Former King of France Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. The National Convention had taken power a few months earlier. 7 June
After very long negotiations, the constitution was reluctantly accepted by King Louis XVI in September 1791. Redefining the organization of the French government, citizenship and the limits to the powers of government, the National Assembly set out to represent the interests of the general will .
King Louis XVI favored war hoping to exploit a military defeat to restore his absolute power—the Assembly was leaning toward war and to spread the ideals of the Revolution. [3] This led in April 1792 to the first of the French Revolutionary Wars .
The Left had three objects of enmity. First among these was the royal couple, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette and the royal family. The Left as a whole wished to replace the monarchy with a republic, although this was not initially the public position of most of them.
[3] [4] [5] Combined with resistance to reform by the ruling elite, and indecisive policy by Louis XVI and his ministers, the result was a crisis the state was unable to manage. [6] [7] Between 1715 and 1789, the French population grew from 21 to 28 million, 20% of whom lived in towns or cities, Paris alone having over 600,000 inhabitants. [8]
Where most professional historians attempt to assume a neutral, detached tone of writing, or a semi-official style in the tradition of Thomas Babington Macaulay, [2] Carlyle unfolds his history by often writing in present-tense first-person plural [3] as though he and the reader were observers, indeed almost participants, on the streets of ...