Essays on French Revolution

“Winning was easy, young man, governing’s harder” (Miranda). Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton reflected on the chaos and unrest of creating a new nation from scratch, even after the success of the American Revolution. The questions which arose during times of instability led to the Enlightenment movement, which was a time period where philosophers advocated that…

Before the French Revolution Enlightenment European diplomacies, philosophy, science, and communications were completely reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” as part of the campaign it had been associated to by its shareholders as the Age of Reason. It was also seen as an intellectual and philosophical movement that had ruled the world…

Women’s involvement in French Revolution contributed to the revolution significantly impacting a demand for political and legal rights. The philosophies for the French Revolution were set out in the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ which in theory assured freedom and equality to all sectors of civilization. Women in French Revolution…

Napoleon was either a tyrant or hero, each person has their own opinion in what he was back then when he used to rule in the 1800s. He was born on Corsica in 1769 and attended military school at the age of 9. Right away Napoleon seized power when the French Revolution broke out. Some…

Napoleon, as one of the most influential figures of modern history, redefined what it meant to be a leader and what was required of an individual to reach the highest levels of success. He was the leader of one of the most incredible European empires to ever be on the continent and did it without…

There is many people that had a big impact in world history such as a statesman and a military leader called Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon had a very big impact in the French revolution as he set new rules, he is known for being the first emperor of France and the world’s greatest military leader. Napoleon…

Robert Darnton writes this small essay and tries to decide what exactly was revolutionary about the French Revolution. Just because it was a revolution does not make it revolutionary. Darnton explores this idea throughout his article. As Darnton develops the essay, he detail three main things that he believes made the French Revolution revolutionary: the…

Thousands of years ago many people believed in Ptolemy s geocentric theory that the Earth was the center of the universe. But, not until around 1500 was that theory disproved by the heliocentric theory formed from a great astronomer named Copernicus. His theory proved that the sun is the center of the universe and that…

After the second French Revolution, the Europe was in state of more peaceful time. During this time the nations could develop their states and increase the wealth for them in case of technology and economy. When Europe would be able to recover more beliefs around the people are going to be discovered. Since people are…

There are many key factors to form the spark that lights any revolution. For the American Revolution, which lasted from 1775-1781, and the French Revolution from 1789-1799, the factors were incredibly similar and influential to each other. The American Revolution consisted of the American colonies fighting for independence from the British; the French Revolution instead…