HIST 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Fear, Philosophes, Tennis Court Oath
24 Dec 2015
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There were actually five french revolutions between 1789 and 1968. French revolution gets its importance from its result it is ultimately a failure in terms of the overthrowing the monarchy. There were also intellectuals in britain, prussia, the. Netherlands, italy: europe"s first locally organized movement (since crusades) intellectual thought in. French monarchy so he locks them out of palace of versailles so the national. Once a government is removed in a revolution and not replaced right away, it results in chaos and uncertainty. Revolutionary tribunal in 1793 and the head of the tribunal (maximilien. Robespierre) who initially supports universal suffrage and education, believes in this violence: 1793-1794 reign of terror 40,000 executed as enemies of state, in 1794, group of national assembly perform a coup and seize tribunal, then. To summarize: the french revolution of 1789 was a dynamic and important time of transition both in france, and europe generally.
