... again was unsuccessful. This time he was tried for treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. While in prison he began to write pamphlets and essays planning out his platform. Six years later, he managed to escape to England and he would not return for another two years. With Louis ... uncle had used during his reign, a plebiscite. With a plebiscite, a movement is proposed and the people simply vote yes or no. As part of the amending, his term was stretched to ten years and universal suffrage was established. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was initially supported overwhelmingly by the French ...

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... navigated diplomatic waters. In 1873, the Three Emperors' League of Germany, Russia, and Austria was formed. The League soon broke up because of rivalry between Russia and Austria concerning the Balkans#. However, it was a successful example of how France could be isolated and alienated. Russia received the short end of Bismarck's diplomacy at the Congress of Berlin#. The Germans solidly sided against Russia. Russia resented ... this and believed that Germany should be more grateful to her savior#. Bismarck next made one of his few mistakes by allying with Austria against Russia ... guns...

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... driving them to a revolution. Voltaire, a philosopher, social critic, and probably the most influential of the philosophes, championed reason, justice and human dignity. He was a prolific and popular writer, the author of numerous stories, essays, poems, plays and pamphlets that castigated, often satirically, the "relics" of the established medieval social order, particularly the clergy - he greatly criticised organised religion - and the ... music, art and science, in novels, essays, poems and plays. He was also one of the founders and main editor of the great "Encyclopedia"- a series of...

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