The Revolution Of France During The French Revolution

The French Revolution was such an important time history. Not only was it a massacre with many lives being lost, including that of Queen Marie Antoinette and her husband King Louis XVI, it was also a time of great political turmoil which would turn man against man that being the case of Edmond Burke and Thomas Paine. Edmond Burke a traditionalist who believed the people should be loyal to the king against his former friend, Thomas Paine a free thinker who believed in order for things to improve one has to have some sort of change. In a time where it seemed as though things changed over-night the only question is which political party would be left standing? In the following paper, I will attempt to analyze Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France against Thomas Paine’s Right of man and state the difference between the two. But before any analysis can be made I must first discuss in further detail the French Revolution.

For my book review, I have read and evaluated Sylvia Neely’s history book entitled A Concise History of the French Revolution published in 2007 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Neely’s purpose is to gives an overview of the French revolution with the most important events, the most prominent people and the essential terms. We can see that the author proved her thesis by explaining the background causes of the revolution such as the ancient regime with Louis XVI. Also she described all important events in chronological orders which made it easier for the reader to understand. Neely’s book is at the same time an history book, but also an kind of encyclopedia because she included all essentials terms which were use during that time period, such as “dérogeance”, which means the loss of nobility.

The French Revolution was a time rife with violence, with many revolutionaries using extreme actions to overturn the French Monarchy and create a government based on equality and justice, rather than tyranny and despotism. This violence reached gruesome and terrible heights throughout the revolution, but was justified by the revolutionaries, who believed that their goals of total equality, the end of tyranny, and the return to a virtuous society, allowed them to use means necessary to attain these sublime and holy goals. Their goal of total virtue for France was a good goal, but the methods in which they attempted to achieve it were tyrannical. Additionally, nationalism was used as method of convincing the French that pure and virtuous thoughts that drove the revolutionaries to such terrible heights. The Committee of Public Safety believed that personal freedom should be foregone in order to protect France from foreign monarchies in Europe who wanted to reinstall the monarchy. Although their original intention was to better France through overthrowing the monarchy, their methods in eradicating the ideology of the monarchy were cruel and extensively terrible.

The Reign of Terror, also known as the terror or La Terreur began September 5th 1793 and lasted until July 27th 1794. This era lasted for a total of one year and two months. During this time over 17,000 people were executed and about 300,000 were arrested. They were all victims of the guillotine. The guillotine was a new instrument of the egalitarian justice. It was a contraption that had a heavy blade that slid vertically in grooves. It was used for beheading its victims. The spark of this terror all started with the Jacobins gaining control over the French government and its leader Maximillian Robespierre.

The French Revolution changed the course of France and the empires around it, sparking new ideas and philosophies on revolution and change. The French Revolution, fueled by the citizens’ hunger and anger, induced fear, anger, support, and more revolutions throughout other countries. Political leaders from different governments felt differently about the Revolution, with some supporting it and some wanting to stop it. The French revolution was perceived differently by different leaders and groups, especially depending on their country's’ government and political views.

The French Revolution (1789-1814) was a period that affected the outcome of world history tremendously. This is considered a major turning point in European history which has led to dramatic changes in France and other regions of the world. Various social and political issues led to the start of the revolution. Politically, France suffered under the rule of Louis XVI, who ruled by absolute monarchy. Many people had their natural rights renounced and weren’t able to have a political voice. Socially, France had divided its population within 3 estates (classes). French citizens took it upon themselves to remodel their country 's’ political structure. The French Revolution had encountered both positive and negative effects. However, many Europeans viewed the Revolution as much more than just a bloody massacre. The French Revolution was used to demonstrate new ideology that would emphasize the principles of liberty and equality throughout Europe.

The French Revolution began in 1789 and made a huge impact on many. It was a time of good and bad changes. It was important because it was an attempt to form a new government in France. It was a period of radical social and political upheaval from 1789 to 1799. It affected history of monarchies, churches, and the rise of democracy. Powers were given to the people and not just the King and Queen. Although the people were receiving new powers a new invention was made. The Guillotine, also known as “the national razor” killed over 16 thousand people. It was a time of violence that occurred at the beginning of the French Revolution. This is known as The Reign of Terror.

hey differ in almost every respect, except in the fact that they are both labeled revolutions.

There’s always a limit on how much a person could bare. When someone is being mistreated, it’s going to come a time when the person retaliate. France was on the verge of bankruptcy because of France’s financial obligations reducing from their involvement in the Seven Years ' War and their participation in the American Revolutionary War. The working class of France were scarcely making it without money and food day to day. The rich and royalty did nothing at all to help. “Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.” A quote from Maximilien de Robespierre, a well-known figure in the French Revolution. He was saying that not all people view thing in the government point of view, and that the people views are more important. The people were fed up and had enough of the rich, wanting to destroy the powerful monarchies and churches. They started being rebellious, starting the French Revolution.

In Chapter 3.5.1 of Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution, the idea of mankind’s tendency towards a “circular fate” is illustrated amongst Carlyle’s grandiose language and flair for the dramatic as the writer points out that mankind is destined to fight back against “their whole Condition and Environment”, over and over again, rising and falling. The feelings of despair in a society when “pushed far enough, completes the circle…and becomes genuine productive hope again.” This almost pessimistic way of thinking is not a concept unique to Thomas Carlyle and has been repeated throughout human-thinking and multiple philosophies regarding human nature, most notably in our own realization that history often seems to “repeat itself”. Religions of

No matter how good the intent, the outcome may be far worse than anticipated. This idea can be said about a lot of things, one of which is the France Revolution. The historical movement began in 1789 and lasted until the late 1790’s. The main drive of this revolution was providing liberty for the citizens of France who had been living under the control of a monarchy and a feudal system. This revolution was inspired by the ideals of those that were glorified in the Enlightenment. The French revolution struck the country hard, this movement lead France into chaos, and caused turmoil for many. One of the people that were influenced by the ideals of the French Revolution was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge was a poet and British philosopher,

Liberté, égalité, fraternité was the cry of freedom that countless people used to propel them through, and to the end of the French Revolution. This long period of social, political and economic change in France lasted 10 years, starting in 1798 and ended with Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution greatly affected all of Europe at the time and continues to represent the embodiment of revolution to this day. This constant struggle between the heavily taxed, burdened, and unrepresented third estate and those higher created an environment of monumental change for everyone. In the years leading up to the French Revolution, new beliefs and ideas were reaching every corner of Europe creating the thought that men should live free of oppression. However, in France the leader Louis XVI lead like a tyrant leaving the people impoverish and angry. Through the analysation of numerous circumstance present during the Ancien Régime, such as an inferior fiscal leadership, massive debt, and the forthcoming of new ideas during the Enlightened period, it can be concluded that the means for this revolution were justified as it is in our essence to revolt for a change.

The French Revolutions Moderate Phase lasted from 1789 to 1792, in time the Third Estate got a lot of power through the people of France. A constitution was written by the National Assembly for France that worked to change multiple things that people in the Third Estate found wrong with the French government, and monarchy was one of the main concerns addressed in the constitution. For a considerably long deal of time prior to the revolution, All of France was separated into different provinces, which were ordered into 83 departments, all of them had resembling population and area. To advertise the trade between departments even better, internal trade barriers were terminated, and the many forms of measurements and weights between areas were eradicated in favor of a single unifying system, we call this single unifying system today the metric system. At this time, several other countries were scared that people might question their own rule, so in order to thwart this possibility, many monarchs decided to go to war against France, trying to restore the monarchy this fighting led to the Radical Phase.

XVI, a monarch who ruled as king of France from 1774 until 1793, was a widely known ruler. “Louis XVI was the last king of France in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789” (Louis). “In 1774, Louis succeeded his grandfather Louis XV as king of France” (BBC). “In 1788, Louis was forced to reinstate France 's National Assembly (the Estates-General) which quickly curtailed the king 's powers” (Execution). Louis attempted escape in 1791 but was captured and returned to Paris” (Execution). Louis XVI was guilty of treason on January 21st, 1973. Louis XVI committed treason and deserved to be guillotined because he had contributed and French Revolution and tried to escape his country during France’s crisis. Another ruler who shared characteristics of Louis XVI was Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein, the fifth president of Iraq, was a cold-blooded dictator. “Saddam Hussein was the ruthless dictator of Iraq from 1979 until 2003” (Saddam Hussein). Saddam Hussein had deserved the death penalty before he was captured and executed by the Americans. Saddam Hussein, when captured, was trialed for hundreds of crimes. Saddam Hussein deserved to go to jail and the outcome of his trial was correct. He was guilty and sentenced to death in 2006.

The French Revolution was known to be the most momentous upheaval of the revolutionary age that replaced modern society. In 1799 it was hard to see the influential changes that were to come. One of these changes was when the bourgeois/landowning classes emerged as the dominate power over all of society. Social order along with contractual relations was consolidated by the Code Napoleon. The urban lower middle class attempted to secure economic and political gains to foreshadow the class conflicts but failed.