Clemenceau's Influence On The French

France had a general distrust of Germany. There was a great fear that if more serious measures to stop Germany were not made then the next generation would be seeking a war of revenge. The French public opinion earnestly desired a just peace, and would not take up arms again until compelled by a clear threat.3 This pacifism played an extremely important role in French policy. "Whether from ignorance or misunderstanding, many of the French people were apathetic, or just did not care enough to want action."4 The people were divided into two forces, the Left and Right, the Right favoring

“Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory. In these latter times, as in the days of our prosperity, you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity. With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable; it would have been civil war, and that would have entailed deeper misfortunes on France.

Louis XIV turned France around from an unorganized feuding country to one of the most organized, powerful, innovative monarchies in Europe. In addition, he managed to advance civil equality among the people by turning all the people into his loyal subjects (Norton, p.175). How did he do all this? The armed forces that had formerly been a private enterprise who had been fighting against each other or had hired themselves out for payment, was taken over and consolidated into one entity fighting, by the king for the king. He made war an activity of the state which produced peace and order in France while strengthening the fighting power of France against other states (Norton, p.175). In addition, he put soldiers in uniform, taught them how to march in step and housed them in barracks which assisted them in becoming more susceptible to discipline and control (Norton, p.175). There was now a hierarchy in place and was able to get a greater degree of government control that put him on the top as the commander in chief of the army due to his power and the creation of the first large civilian administration (Norton, p.176). This was the first time that ministers of war consisted of civilians and this grew the armies power exponentially. Louis XIV also overhauled the grandeur of France when he took an old village Versailles and turned it into the palace of Versailles that became known as one of the most splendid marvels in Europe so much so, that it became the envy of lessor kings.

Napoleon Bonaparte was a great leader until he took his power too far. He helped France get out of their debt and also won multiple territories from winning wars. He continued to strengthen France with his great leadership and military strategies. Eventually, though, he began to abuse his power. He proceeded through a war, without forfeit and experienced a great defeat. During his time of power Napoleon was a paradox. Napoleon’s fall from being a great leader taught us that, sometimes when people get too used to having so much power and authority, they may abuse their powers to a large extent.

Throughout the book “Au Revoir Les Enfants” Louis Malle highlights at several points the typical associations which the majority of people have when discussing the role of the Germans during the war. However Malle approaches the topic from a more complex angle thus forcing the reader to question the general stereotypes and examine the varying attitudes of both the French and Germans, by portraying them in certain situations in which they adopt a sometimes unexpected attitude.

The French Nobility has been around since the beginning of the Roman Empire. Similar to the Romans, the French organized their state around the nobility and the clergy, not taking into account the massive amount of commoners. The Third Estate was finally created centuries later to help bring order and give common people their own place within society. Charles Loyseau and Isabelle de Charriere are two prime sources that compare French nobility during the 17th and 18th century, leading up to the French Revolution. Charles Loyseau, both a jurist and legal scholar evaluates French society in his writing A Treatise on Orders. In the writing of his treatise, Loyseau describes the “social anatomy of France” in an

He wanted to cripple and destroy Germany. He would have this opposite view because Germany had invaded France twice in his lifetime, both forced France to suffer a lot. For French, it really felt unsafe to be the neighbor of Germany; we Americans would never understand the feeling of living in great danger. As Clemenceau said himself, he would never let this happen again. Therefore, he wanted to “kill Germany” and did not want “peace without victors”.

The French Revolution had an immense impact on the way America operated. A once unbreakable bond between the two countries became severed by France’s intentions of altering political and social matters. With this in mind, Washington had to consider the way this would affect America’s impending future and he had to make sure the situation was handled properly. Quite a few effects resulted from this incident and they have altered America’s history forever.

There were many early expeditions from Europe to North America, most in search of a

The French settled within North America during the 17th century. This started when Samuel de Champlain founded the settlement of Quebec in 1608. The settlement was owned and controlled by the Company of New France while it’s population slowly grew. The colonists of New France, traded with the Native Americans at trading posts set up along the St. Lawrence river. The Native Americans traded various fur pelts in exchange for European goods such as metal tools and weaponry. The camaraderie formed from trading resulted in two Native tribes (the Montagnais and Hurons) to become military allies with the colonists. In 1663, New France came under the control of King Louis XIV after he shutdown the Company of New France. Soon afterward, in 1681, Robert Sieur de La Salle claimed Louisiana for France.

Even though Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain had huge impacts on history and Eastern Canada to this day, which one of them made a larger impact to discovery and exploration. One perspective on this issue is that Cartier was more important because he was the first to explore the St. Lawrence. Another perspective is that Champlain was more important as he set up many colonies and discovered many first nation ethnic groups. Jacques Cartier was the first explorer to travel and map the St. Lawrence, a river with massive importance to Eastern Canada in the times of the fur trade to today. He also made two separate journeys, discovering many first nation groups along the way.

The long list of nations that regarded France as a threat included England, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire. In the 1680’s, they formed an alliance with several smaller countries and formed “The Grand Alliance.” Then due to a large threat to France, the war was declared, it lasted from 1688 to 1697. France had a large quantity of its territory intact. But the nation was in horrible condition and its resources were incredibly depleted from fighting a war against seemingly everyone else in Europe. If this wasn’t bad enough for public opinion of King Louis XIV, he was the catalyst of yet another war from 1701-1714. This war was even more disastrous, and people started to revolt. But even then, no one could doubt the almost unstoppable military Louis had built from the ground up. France’s military had been struggling and was in shambles. Due to the work of King Louis XIV and his war minister, Marquis de Louvois, they reorganized the army and improved the qualification and rewards for joining. All the sudden the Army was an actual career path that could support an entire family. Soldiers were supplied with uniforms and wages that couldn’t be turned down. Of course, this meant that taxpayer money was drastically increased. Their military was prospering more than ever . In Moctezuma’s 17 years as the

1. The author is illustrating the French point of view during the 1870's. Most of the other European countries are looking at France and are portrayed in mostly negative manners. France is portrayed as an honorable country that is trying to fight off the invading Prussians.

You do not need to have a fascination with French history to enjoy this book. Carhart did an incredible job of interweaving all the different aspects of the book from his childhood in 1950’s France, the history of Chateau Fontainebleau, to him bringing his own family over to France in the 1980’s to live in the town of Fontainebleau. Since the time the author spent living in the quaint town of Fontainebleau as a child he was drawn back like most of us are drawn to chocolate. Therefore, doing a beautiful job of telling the history of Chateau Fontainebleau & who from French history starting in 1137 with King Louis VII made an impact on the evolution of it from a hunting lodge to a magnificent museum.

Jules Ferry and Georges Clemenceau were two of the greatest proponents of the Third Republic in France. They had been active even before the fall of the Second Empire, with Ferry writing articles against the Empire in Le Temps (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1998) and Clemenceau founding several Republican journals, and even being present at Léon Gambetta's proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870 (Monnerville, 2016).Whilst it is clear that the two men were both staunch supporters of a republic in the sense of government delegated ‘to a small number of citizens elected by the rest’ (Madison, 1787) their views on many aspects of the state as a republic frequently clashed. This essay will break down the key differences in Ferry and Clemenceau's positions,