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.

The violent scene that showed the initial outburst of the revolution was the Storming of the Bastille. This depiction of the real life event expertly displays the

In 1793 and 1794, were conditions in France serious enough to require such a violent response by the revolutionary government.The Reign of Terror lasted less than two years, from the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793 to late July 1794.During those eighteen months, more than 20,000 French people were put to death by guillotine.The behavior by the revolutionary French government was not justified because Any society that invents the machine to publicly cut off people’s heads is off base. The action is unjustified because it is barbaric.The reign of terror was not justified because Robespierre’s s Desperate times required desperate measures not justified In a government that says it values liberty, passing a law like the levee en mass is unjust because it requires people to do things they do not want to do wrong in a government that says it values freedom and liberty. The revolutionary government made too many demands on individuals who were right to rebel against the oppressive revolutionary government. speech sounds rational, but he is out of touch. When a government has to “smother” its own citizens in order to eliminate individuals who challenge it, the government is not promoting freedom.To lay the foundations of democracy and the rule of law, rulers need to follow democracy and the rule of law, not the blade of terror. Any society that invents the machine to publicly cut off people’s heads is off base. The action is unjustified because it is barbaric.Nine people

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

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.

“Europe cannot conceive of life without Kings and nobles; and we cannot conceive of it with them. Europe is lavishing her blood to preserve her chains, whereas we are lavishing ours to destroy them”(Maximilien Robespierre). For centuries upon centuries, the monarchal system had dominated European life. The very nature of this method of rule incited rebellious feelings, as a definite imbalance of power was present. Understandably, people under this system had risen against authority. The glorious nation of France was no exception. The eighteenth century brought about a great deal of economic and social turmoil. By the end of this one hundred year period, rebellion had been talked about by many citizens for quite some time. However,

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

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

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

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.