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    Ethan Daly Mrs.Gregory World History 28 November 2017 Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born on May 6, 1758, in Arras, France. As the oldest of 4 children, he had a rather rough childhood considering he was raised by his grandparents. This is due to the death of his mother when Max was 6 and his father leaving the family near that time. Max’s education was at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He graduated with a law degree in 1781. He made a decent wage as a lawyer

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    Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was the first well-taught Sign Language teacher in America, but he was French. He was born on December 26, 1785 in La Balme-les-Grottes, France. He was born hearing, but was left on a chair when he was only a year old and fell into a fire. He was left deaf and unable to smell, with a scar on the right side of his face that he later used to sign his name. When he was seven years old his mother took him to see a physician in the nearby town of Lyons to treat his deafness.

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    the most influencing mathematician of her time, and still continues to be. On April 1, 1776, in a little house on Rue Saint-Denis, located in Paris, France, was born Marie-Sophie Germain. She was raised along with a younger and older sister, Angélique-Ambroise and Marie-Madeline, by her parents Marie-Madeline and Ambroise-Franҫois Germain. Marie-Sophie Germain started acknowledging herself by just Sophie Germain, by the excess amount of “Maries” in the family. Sophie Germain was assumed to be influenced

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    England under the reign of Tudors through the marriage between Queen Mary and his son - Prince Edward. However, Mary's mother, Marie de Guise - a native of France, and Scottish court preferred allying Scotland to the powerful French Catholic nation. On 7 August 1548, 6-year-old Queen Mary had to leave her Scotland to France as a deposit for Scotland's safety. However, Catherine de Medici, Mary's future mother-in-law, did try her utmost to prevent Mary from marrying her son, Francis, due to a deathly prophecy

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    Marie Curie... She is best known for her discovery of radium and polonium and her work with radioactivity. She encountered times of adversity in her career just because she was a woman, but she met her challenges and overcame them. Marie Curie exceeded the barriers put on women in her time to become one of the world’s most famous scientists and used her knowledge to the benefit of humanity. Marie Curie was breaking barriers even when she was young. Marya Salomee Sklodowska was born on November

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    world was going through dramatic changes, the French Revolution, didn’t occur until 1789 and it ended in 1799. A revolution changes things in a fundamental and comprehensive way, no matter how fast changes occur and that is exactly what happened in France at this time. Arguably, the American Revolution helped to influence the French Revolution but there are several other causes that influenced the French Revolution as well. The causes and effects of the French Revolution played a big role in shaping

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    ambience. “Great. So excited.” I speak my words slowly to emphasize sarcasm. My mom gives me her signature “don’t-give-me-that-attitude-or-there-will-be-consequences” look, one that I have received too many times during our lengthy trip from the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. As we slowly pull into a long brick driveway, I shift uncomfortably on the tattered leather seats of the taxi, absentmindedly pounding my forehead lightly on the window. The taxi begins to sway as the paved driveway melts into

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    Women in Beowulf and Lanval History Essay

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    Property of the King: Life of Medieval Women in Beowulf and Lanval History has been recorded throughout time in stories, books, poems and other literary works. These writings give historians and readers of the present day valuable insights into the lifestyles, beliefs, society, economics, politics and pagan religion of the time period they originate. Authors are greatly influenced by the beliefs and attitudes of their own society and time. The works they write provide a window to the past that allows

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    French Revolution Change Frances Form Of Government? The French. revolution was huge turning point in history of the country France it marked a change from the feudal system France used prior and the over throwing of a monarch during this time Frances economy, government, and rule changed in the way the people decided to change it to. The French revolution first starting in modern European history at 1789 and ending a year later in 1790, it was a important event in Frances history as well as modern

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    these portions of the world, but the 1905 laïcité law in France established this nation as a secular society, breaking away from Christianity and promoting the privatization of religion in order to guarantee its free exercise. 20th century France witnessed waves of immigration in the form of those of Islamic descent, first with unskilled laborers from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia coming to work in French factories. The Algerian War between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front saw a second

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