Essays on French Revolution Page 3

It was 1789 and the citizens of France were fed up. They had had excessively many old ages of covering with a monarchial authorities, one ruled entirely by a male monarch. Where had this gotten them? No where good they were insolvents and the greatest per centum of the citizens was considered in the lower…

The Age of Napoleon I. From Robespierre to Bonaparte a. Relatively secure after the military victories of 1793-1794, the National Convention repudiated the Terror and struck at the leading terrorists in a turnabout known as the Thermidorian reaction. During the four unsteady years of the Directory regime, French armies helped bring revolution to other parts…

After the fall of monarchy, the French revolutionaries faced large popular insurrections and division among the people. In the early days of the revolution, many people still sided with the monarchy which brought on accusations of treason against the new republic. A new stable government was needed to end the chaos, and the Committee of…

This paper will argue that. The reign of Terror was not justifies d this claim can be supported by three main reasons the threats to the government weren’t big enough, the methods did not justify it, and the actions Of the government contradicted the ideals of the revolution. Starting off, the Reign of terror was…