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Kamal Mohamed, Sanford H. Calhoun High School Introduction: The court will be hearing the case of the Republic of Haiti versus the French Republic. The mannor of the case will be concerning the Independence debt of 1825 in which the French Republic issued a tax amount of 90 million gold Francs in the year 1825 due to the Republic of Haiti 's desire to leave the French Empire. The French Republic calculated the amount after the former slave owners totalled the loss after the former slaves revolted

importance that New Caledonia and French polynesia remain under the umbrella of the French Republic. France will endeavor so that the 2018 referendum in New Caledonia will result in a vote to remain with the French Republic - which would signal the end of a further transfer of powers under the Noumea accord and would prolong the independence debate for the foreseeable future. It would ensure the powers of foreign policy, military and immigration stay in the French Government's hands which is key to

The French Revolution began in July of 1789. The French Revolution happened because the French people wanted to uproot their political system and re-do the entire thing. Changing the Monarchy to a Republic. The revolution otherwise known as the ¨Reign of Terror.¨ Over 40,000 people were brutally executed at the hands of the French. Napoleon Bonaparte was the French emperor from 1804-1814. In the beginning Napoleon was an artillery officer in the early French army. He became a popular French idol

when French citizens overthrew their king, King Louis Philippe (pg. 118). This was due to the horrible economy the French were experiencing, and the king’s horrible rule over France. The revolutionaries in France wanted to establish a Constitutional government, so they could have more control on how the government was run. After overthrowing King Louis Philippe, the French people established the Second French Republic (pg. 119). After the Second French Republic was established, the French thought

Amidst the latter half of the nineteenth century, the French Third Republic experienced an intense political and judicial scandal concerning the innocence of army captain Alfred Dreyfus, which ultimately brought the contending elements of French life into a massive collision and split French society into two irreconcilable factions. The Dreyfus Affair has often been viewed as marking a turning point in the history of the political landscape of France, in which many historians have highlighted the

The French Republic of France is located in Western Europe. It’s history dates back as far as Julius Caesar and the Romans. One could easily write a lengthy paper simply addressing the history of France. Just looking at the last 5 centuries for France alone, one could fill books with the information. Between the wars of Religion in the late 15th century, the Enlightenment and Reign of Napoleon during the 18th Century, and the World Wars of the 19th century, France has experienced monumental changes

in frenzy, that Napoleon trusted he was the legend, that all through Paris he was the rescuer of the French Republic. I imagine that developed his certainty and made him more intense. In 1796 Napoleon was named to lead the French, he made it into Italy with a great deal of triumphs. In the 1800's he at last got to be about the first insight. Napoleon needed to control Europe and restart French power in the Americas. He

Introduction From French revolution in 1789, France has had five different republican systems. The fifth and current republic was an outcome to the Algerian crisis in 1950’s. The First Republic began with the fall of King Louis XVI in 1792 and ended with Napoleon Bonaparte declaring himself emperor of the First French Empire in 1804. After Napoleon’s empire had ended, a period of monarchies followed, until the 1848 Revolution saw the birth of the Second Republic, paradoxically enough with the election

the radical National Convention formed in 1793. The Republic, gave common people a voice. A republican named Jaques Roux expressed his frustrations, “The Republic is but an empty illusion when the counterrevolution takes place daily because three quarters of the citizenry cannot afford the price of basic foodstuffs and no one sheds a tear”. Roux’s angst is conveyed through the lack of necessities consumed because of the revolution. The Republic need the people in order for them to gain power. Roux

Favre and Leon Gambetta, proclaimed the Third Republic. It lasted seventy years, until the German invasion in 1940. The Third Republic has always been characterised by very instable governments. Nonetheless it’s in this period that France becomes a nation. What are the main features of that period that allow as defining France as a nation? In this essay we will anticipate some of the most important aspects of the Third Republic: 1) What is the Third Republic 2) The Paris Commune 3) The Panama Scandal