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Charles X ordered Maréchal Auguste Marmont, Duke of Ragusa, the on-duty Major-General of the Garde Royale, to repress the disturbances. Marmont was personally liberal, and opposed to the ministry's policy, but was bound tightly to the King because he believed such to be his duty; and possibly because of his unpopularity for his generally perceived and widely criticized desertion of Napoleon in 1814. The king remained at Saint-Cloud, but was kept abreast of the events in Paris by his ministers, who

Edict which allows protestants freedom to worship publicly | | |outside of towns. | | |Duke of Guise surprised a protestant congregation at Vassy, Champagne and | | |massacred the worshipers. This is the beginning of the French wars of Religion | |

activity related to festive events beyond the single day most people know of it as. Mardi gras arrived in North America as a French Catholic tradition. It dates back all the way to ancient Rome in the 17th and 18th century to the French house of the Bourbons. Fat Tuesday is the last day of the carnival season, which is the day before Ash Wednesday (first day of lent). French for Fat Tuesday, Mardi gras reflects the practice of the last night of eating richer fatty foods before the fasting of the Lenten

Robert Mitchell Russell 10/28/2015 History of European civilizations Dr. Kruse Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini was born on November 3rd in the year 1500 in Florence, Italy. His father was Giovanni Cellini and his mother was Marisa Lisabetta Granacci. The time period Cellini was born is considered to be the beginning of the Cinquecento period of the arts in Italy. By the end of Cellini’s life he was successful in many aspects of cinquecento arts. This paper gives highlights on Cellini’s

land near the Rhine, but lost much of it after being found guilty of treason by Emperor Otto the Great. The family's fortune were restored by Count Radbot von Habsburg, the grandson of Guntram, who built Habsburg Castle and married the daughter of the Duke of Lorraine. The House of Habsburg gradually increased it's power though marriage and diplomacy, eventually becoming one of the most powerful families in Germany, gaining their Austrian Lands in 1282. Although there had been some Habsburg Holy Roman

The lay people had no part in government, apart from a few lay members of advisory bodies called ‘congregations'. Politically, Italy was fragmented. Further, half the states were governed by kings or dukes who already occupied or hoped soon to inherit the thrones of the non-Italian countries. Venice and Piedmont had dominions outside Italy. The Papacy had worldwide ecclesiastal concerns. The peninsula was not merely divided; the boundaries and interests

transport their shipments to northern factories in the past, these new factories helped the southern farmers tremendously. Other industries that experienced an increase in production after Reconstruction were the tobacco-processing industry (James B. Duke founded the American Tobacco Company), the iron plus steel industry that boomed out of Birmingham, Alabama, and the railroad companies that helped the South double its amount of trackage from 1880-1890. Despite these industrial advancements, the South

1. Congress of Troppau: a. An international conference that took place in 1820. The congress was represented by Russia, Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, and France. Their purpose was to consider the resources of defeating liberal uprisings against Ferdinand I and suppressing the revolution in Naples. 2. Congress of Verona: a. It was the last of the meetings held by the European powers in agreement with the terms of the Quadruple Alliance between Russia, Prussia, and Great Britain. It took place

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

movement as it was a threat to his reign and control. Thus, divided the country and started what is known as the French Religious Wars. As tensions became to rise, so did the Conspiracy of Ambroise. “This is which the Huguenots and the House of Bourbon plotted to usurp the power of the Guise family”. (lllll) The Guise family was the family in charge of most of the French government at the time. After the family started to realize what was happening, they became to kill hundreds of conspirators.