... to new discoveries up until this day. It allowed women to gain some privileges and changed the ways of governing. The French Revolution could have been avoided, but it would have delayed the development of the world that we know. The French Revolution started when Louis XVI came into power. The country was in debt and they needed a way to gain money to pay ... came when the anti-revolutionaries drove the Directory out of power. As the Directory left power the revolution and chances of the revolution to continue left with them. The revolution would have lasted much longer if the revoluti...

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... Left, Right, and Center came to us from this period. The only thing that ended the carnage, inside France, at least, was a man on horseback, Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution had brought forth first anarchy, then statism, and finally, dictatorship. Had it not been for the unyielding spirit of the average Frenchman and France's position as the largest country in ... personally raised money to help pay the salaries of Anglican ministers who would lose their tax-supported paychecks. In matters of religion, the leaders of America's Revolution agreed to disagree. Finally, unlike the Fr...

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... it clarified and codified all the various, confusing and inconsistent legislations of the many revolutionary governments. Since governments had gone in and out of power in the years following the French Revolution, a mess of legislation had been created, making it very unclear as to what the laws were on various issues. Napoleon created uniformity in the legal system that hadn't existed ... with revolutionary tradition here, especially when one considers his troubled romance and subsequent divorce with Josephine Beauharnais. The other significant aspect of the Code Napoleon in regards t...

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... The women of 18th century France pioneered through uncharted ideological, political, and social grounds, but their work was fruitless in establishing women's rights in the constitution written after the French Revolution. The majority of men believed that women's participation in government was both unnecessary and redundant. Women were assumed to have the same interest and opinions as the men who ... female club, Les Amies also cleared the way for the establishment of Les Citoyennes republicaines revolutionaires (The Society of Revolutionary Republican Women), the most radical women's c...

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... women could not sell property, run business, or have o profession w/out their husband's permission. Code prohibited paternity suits for illegitimate children. Code consolidated some of the games of the revolution, treating citizens as = as b4 the law and outlawing arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Robespierre- born of a family reputed to be of irish descent. He was trained for law and achieved ... the constitution encountered resistance in parts of rural france. The pope threatened to excommunicate priests who signed the civil constitution, driving many local pp in catholic areas into c...

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... linguistic Austrian Empire or were small independent monarchical states or even both. This change in the European map is due to the concept of nationalism which emerged from the French revolution in 1789, to become the most successful political force of the nineteenth century. Events like the Napoleonic wars, the improvement of communications, the revival of languages and social ... Italian national question, because they brought transitory reforms, which could not establish themselves due to the deep-rooted problems it had. The revolutions of 1848 showed that like any other revolution, ...

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