Causes of the French Revolution For more than 100 years, France had been the most powerful and largest country in Europe during the 1800s. They seemed to be very stable, however it was just their outer appearance. Beneath the stability, lay seeds of revolution. Reforms were needed to satis...

In the 1700\'s there was social unfairness in France. Taxes and laws were different in each province causing confusion and injustice. Louis XIV and Louis XV both left big debts when they died, and this made France nearly bankrupt. The clergy and nobles had plenty of money but the king couldn\'t tax ...

The use of either physical (such as the aggressiveness shown by the Cheka, the Russian secret police) or political force (such as War Communism) was prevalent in both the French (Between May 1789 - 1795) and Russian (Between February 1917 - 1924) revolutions. To protect and reinforce the revolutions...

French Canadians & The Blackstone Valley John J. Barron Ethnicity in Massachusetts Wed. 12:30 The French have a lengthy history on this continent. The French became interested in the "New World" in 1524 when...

In some ways, the American and French Revolutions seem alike. Both were influenced by ideas of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment is the term used to describe the trends of thinking and writing in Europe and America during the 18th century before the French Revolution. These ideas included the philoso...

For my presentation, I\'ve decided to research language. I think that is interesting to know how a person acquires language and how they learn a second language. Most people say that children and people who learn a second language learn by imitating what adults or people around them say. But it has ...

How legitimate would you judge Britain's reaction to French occupation of Fashoda to have been? Immediately after the Crimean War Britain and France were seen as great allies. And when the scramble of Africa started the main thing Britain did not want to happen was to start a large war with ...

Essay: The French Revolution Prompt: Identify the major social groups in France on the eve of the 1789 Revolution. Assess the extent to which their aspirations were achieved in the period from the meeting of the Estates-General (May 1789) to the declaration of the republic (Sept 1792). Louis XVI...

The modern French government is run very much like the government of theUnited States. France is a democratic republic that is divided into three branches,the Executive branch, the Legislative branch, and the Judicial branch. The Legislative branch is made up of the Parliament, which like the Unite...

The ostensible reason of rivalry caused the French & Indian war. France and England went through a period of more than a hundred years of rivalry. As a simple spark ignites an enormous flame, France and England established an overwhelming tension in the exact manner. Since Britain and France were ...

Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, portrayed the French Revolution unfairly, and not entirely completely. I don\'t think that Dickens goal in writing A Tale of Two Cities was to portray the stability of England as a nation, but that was the main message I derived from the film. Also, some of the caus...

Imagine landing in France: the place looks beautiful, but you have no idea where to go. Things are running through your head: did I bring enough money, where will I stay, and am I really safe here? You notice the sun is shinning; obviously you came at the right time. Before you make the decision to ...

Francios-Marie Arouet's, assuming the pen-name of Voltaire, L'Ingenu is a satirical story that begins in 1689 when a ship of English merchants are coming to France to trade. This is when the Ingenu is first introduced. The French are most intrigued by his appearance. Because of a picture ...

Interactions between the Natives, and the French and BritishThe two documents, The Jesuit Relations, and Instructions for the Virginia Colony sharecommonalities in their approaches in enforcing Christianity on the Native people. Both Frenchand English believe in exposing and converting the natives t...

Dusk! The last shot of the first battle has been fired. The soldiers, the hungry, the injured and the weary, have retired to their camps. A man is seen lying on the ground calling out for his mother to come and rescue him from this hell on earth that has become his life. He is in ...

Political Background Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) - during the reign of the young Louis XIII (1601-1643), the central power of France was dominated by a powerful statesman, Cardinal Richelieu - through his friendship with Marie de Medici (young Louis' advisor), he became involved in governm...

Paul Gauguin was a French painter born in Paris on June 7, 1848. Earlier in his life, while in Peru, he lived a successful life as a stockbroker with his wife and five children. After seeing his first impressionist exhibit in 1874, Gauguin started to collect and paint at the age of 35. Gauguin then ...

The French Revolution brought about many changes in France in the late seventeen hundreds to the early eighteen hundreds. The revolution affected France politically, socially, and economically. Changes included ashift from absolute monarchy to trying out different types of government, politically, ...

The French Revolution brought great changes in government and the society of France. The French Revolution lasted from 1789 to 1799. The Revolution in France introduced democratic ideas, but did not make France a democracy. Through the French Revolution came the ideas of liberty and equality afte...

French- English Colonization There were absolutely many differences in the way that the French and English colonized. Because England was to self-centered about their individuals than to worry anything about their colonies to the point you see France had sufficient time and occasion to coloniz...

Vietnamese statesman, Communist leader, and Confucian humanist, who led the country's struggle for independence in the 1940s and was a major figure in the war between North and South Vietnam in the 1960s. Ho Chi Minh devoted his life to the nationalism, which to promote the Vietnamese independence. ...

The Hundred Years War was similar to that of the Civil War in my opinion. It was said to have been started by the English king, Edward III. In 1328 when Charles IV, king of France died without a male heir, Edward III claimed the throne via his mother who was Charles IV sister. The French however cho...

Noir is also a French word Ginette Vincendeau The theme of this French article is the French antecedents of film noir. Film noir is a term used to describe the large body of films in America in the period of 1941-58, generally they focus on urban crime and corruption, on sudden episodes of violence ...

France has known for a fact that Iraq (Saddam) has had WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) programs. (Rhodes, Jonathan Pg.1) Because of France\'s lucrative import and exports between itself and Iraq, France has its own interests to protect. If France keeps its oil intake unharmed, then all is well. Th...

The French Revolution The statement citing the essential cause of the French Revolution asthe "collision between a powerful, rising bourgeoisie and an entrenchedaristocracy defending it's privileges" has great pertinence in summarizingthe conflict of 1789. The causes of the French Revolution, b...