Marquis Bernard-Rene De Anthony

In Timothy Tackett’s When the King Took Flight, it’s explained how Louis XVI’s flight to Varennes resulted in escalating events to happen in the French Revolution that changed and shaped the history of France. In his flight to escape the revolution and upon his capture, he unintentionally created a domino effect that rippled throughout France with consequences that were far from his original plans when attempting to escape the country. This essay will explain how the flight to Varennes radicalized the revolution by further weakening the monarchy and its authority along with its image, that the most significant reaction was that it opened ideas to new forms of government, and that the seeds for this radicalism was already present.

Do know in the late 1700s if someone disobeyed you they head got chopped off.the french revolution began in 1789 as an attempt to form a new government in france.it was a revolution that did not follow a simple path .one broadside from the time read ”unity ,indivisibility of republican liberty equality fraternity or death” .it is the last word of course that is troubling. The reign of terror was justified because the the threats to them, the method for punishment and the reasons behind the revolution The reign of terror was unjustified because of all the threats they received from inside and outside enemies. In document c it speaks of all the outside threats. ”in august 1792 an 80,000-man army marched into france.nearly half the force was prussian ,and the other half austria.austria and prussia were

On September third and fourth of 1792, crowds, fueled by the terror the government had instilled in them over time, broke into prisons and brutally murdered the inmates who they deemed to be against the revolution. Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne’s Les nuits de Paris chronicles the horrific things he saw on that day. Of all of the horrible descriptions, the words “Dead bodies are piled high in front of the Châtelet” are enough to make it clear that this event was completely unjustified and inexcusably horrific. He also describes the murder of a woman by the Revolutionaries he witnessed first hand.

Maximillian de Robespierre was the maker and the ruler of the ‘Reign of Terror,’ which made him one of the most influential men of the French Revolution. He believed it was needed in order to save he revolution from its enemies. During this time period ordinary people for example a man and his wife would be arrested

A glint of good news came to the now-impoverished family when the merchant heard that a ship containing his merchandise had just arrived in port. The merchant was overjoyed and went to claim his wealth, only to find that there had been a legal ordeal and he had, indeed, lost it all. Here, the author tries to illustrate the French government’s inadequacy in meeting the needs of the people. In the 1850s, great minds, including the Swiss/French political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, were writing that the authority to rule came from the people themselves. Furthermore, philosophers argued that the government’s duty was not to serve their own decadence but rather to serve the people. The French government, being an absolute monarchy, was ruled by only the word of Louis XV, and the royal Bourbon family had a history of ruling to meet their own selfish desires. The French monarchy did not uphold the intrinsic promise and duty of any government to protect, feed, and serve its people. De Beaumont symbolizes this by failing to deliver the goods to the impoverished former merchant. In other words, just like the merchant’s undelivered goods, the

King Louis XVI believed the revolutionary changes he detested “had been provoked by a few radicals in the National Assembly and their demagogic control of Parisian ‘rabble’ (87).” As thousand flocked to see the kings caravan return to Paris it became evident he had misinterpreted the true influence of the revolution. Many of his loyal subjects rejected the notion removing their hats upon his arrival, a snub to the king and his royal family. Previously under the king’s regime the general public had considered him

To demonstrate, The London Times newspaper reveals the horrible, inhumane side of the Revolution as they describe the process of the guillotine executions in her report on the burial of Jean-Paul Marat and the execution of his killer, Charlotte Corday. The newspaper describes the executioner as an “inhumane monster” which strongly conveys a tone of resentment and shock towards what the Revolution is as a whole, therefore opposing the policies of the Revolution (Doc. 1). It is understandable that there would be a horrific description of the executions since the report on the burial and execution occurred during the year 1793, the year where widespread executions began to take place. It is also important to note that during 1793-1795, the number of executions began to rapidly increase as time went by. The Law of 22 Prairial, a law introduced in 1794 that permitted the revolutionary tribunal to convict suspects without having substantial evidence, was also a major factor in increasing the amount of executions which in turn created a growing animosity towards the new policies of the Revolution (The End of Terror, p.619). In addition to The London Times newspaper’s description of the Revolution, Louis-Marie Fréron describes the Revolution with terrifying imagery and reveals that no one is safe from the Revolution,

However, the source is limited because as a French writer, his views on the French monarchy may be unduly influential. This book was published almost two hundred years after the revolution. This implies that the sentiment towards the monarchy may have evolved over time and would not precisely display the true emotions of the French people from about two centuries earlier.

The storming of the bastille is an extremely important event that sparked the French Revolution, created a new holiday, and caused panic in the French government. The Storming was a huge step to ending all monarchies in France. It all began when a group of people called the Partisans felt as if they were in an oppressive monarchy, and as a result of this, they decided to revolt. They used a large fortress/prison called the Bastille as a symbol of their revolt. The Bastille was built in 1370, and was known formerly as Bastille Saint-Antoine, it was used as state prison, and originally built to protect against eastern English attack. The prison held traitors to the king, and may be compared to modern day solitary confinement, because it was for the worst of the worst

On the night 20/21st June 1791 Louis attempted to flee from the Tuileries Palace in Paris for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons that Louis wanted to flee was because he felt as if he was being kept as a prisoner there which led him to fear for his own safety. Since the October days when the crowd stormed the Versailles palace and brought the royal family into Paris Louis had felt like he was a prisoner of the crowds as his freedom did become reduced. Furthermore, in Easter of 1791 Louis and his family had been prevented from leaving Paris in order to visit Saint Cloud, a visit that they took annually. This prevention made Louis feel like even more of a prisoner as he was being held against his will, which highlighted the power that the sans-culottes crowd had as they had stopped him, and the power that he was losing as he

When Louis XVI came to the throne in 1774, he was nineteen years of age. While no one doubted his ability to rule France, it was quite clear that, although raised as the Dauphin since 1765, he didn’t have firmness and decisiveness. His desire to be loved by the people is obvious in the prefaces of many of his edicts that would often explain the nature and good intention of his actions as benefiting

As revolutions have occurred throughout history, their revolutionaries bond together and unite for their cause. This unity creates a single voice that will lead their journey to change the society around them, however they can be steered into the wrong direction by this mob mentality. During the French Revolution in the late 1700’s, the guillotine was invented and put to use during an era now known as the Reign of Terror. The establishment of the guillotine empowered the middle class; it gave them a voice and mean of control to steer the Revolution toward equality, meanwhile it corrupted the identity and values of their society.

The Royal Family of France’s attempted escape on June 20th, 1791 made many people very unhappy with the King. The mob, ever ready to exercise the uncontrolled Rights of Men, made a mock parade of the King’s Arms in the market places, and, dashing them and the figure of a crown to the ground, they trampled upon them, crying out, “Since the King has abandoned what he owed to his high situation, let us trample upon the ensigns of royalty” (Ascherson 48)! The Royal Family not only lost many of its followers through their attempted escape, but also because King Louis XVI kept making bad decisions, ones that had no benefit to France or its people. The people wanted someone who would lead them into a revolution and change France for the better, not because they wanted the power, but because they believed in France and wanted it to become a great nation. That man was Robespierre, who after the flight of the King followed the Jacobin club in its move toward republicanism. He called for universal male suffrage and the end of property qualifications for voting and office holding (Blumberg 290). Robespierre wanted to make France a republic, a government for the people and by the people, a country where everyone had the freedoms and rights they deserved. In January of 1793, Robespierre voted on whether or not he thought that King Louis should be executed for his actions. At the Convention on the trial

The storming of the Bastille on the 14 July 1789 saw the beginning of the French revolution when partisans of the Third Estate in France stormed the infamous prison that symbolised everything that was wrong with the Monarchy. The event elicited a great number of reactions in British media and press. The overall fervour surrounding the fall of the Bastille in Britain can be seen in the ‘Bastille war’ that occurred between minor theatres in London who each put on their own representations of the storming of the famous prison merely weeks after the event took place. William Cowper, writing on the Bastille had predicted the popular reaction in 1785 stating: “There’s not and Englishman that would not leap/To hear that ye were fall’n at last.’

Our goal is to study more specifically the Neoclassical era, because this period in France gave a newly and creative sense of style in both the arts and architecture that was very similar to those in ancient Rome and Greece (Craske, 1997). During this conflict it caused people to recognize social status and freedom of dress. This revolt caused civilians mainly middle class to rebel for equality and freedom among their society (Mezler, 1998). Furthermore, our group will analyze this decline of the pompous nobility as France is experiencing the onset of a revolution. Following this shift is the ultimate demise of formal aristocracy, the once cynosure of all eyes has met their fate at the guillotine. A guillotine, meant to symbolize the Reign of Terror nearing the end of the eighteenth century would perhaps be a fitting and symbolic final piece to the exhibition.