... He entered upon a short and highly inglorious political career, serving as a member of Parliament from 1774 to 1783. He violently opposed the American Revolution, although later he was to look with favor on the more radical French Revolution. In 1783 he withdrew to Lausanne, where he completed his masterpiece. His own Memoirs of His Life and Writings, commonly called the Autobiography, first ... members, overthrew the Directory on 18 Brumaire (Nov. 9) and established the Consulate. Until the Restoration of the Bourbons (1814), Napoleon (see Napoleon I) ruled France. 19 Effects of the Revo...

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... of the United States (Lefebvre; Pious). The concept of democracy continued to be prevalent in Europe with the philosophies of an English philosopher by the name of John Locke and a French philosopher named Jean Jacques Rousseau. Locke's book, Two Treatises (published in 1690), stated that under the "social contract," the government's job was to protect "natural rights", which included "the right ... two philosophers said that the people should have input on how their government is run. This school of thought paved the way for modern day American Democracy (Lefebvre). The American Revolu...

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... Realists focused on ethical choices and morality in the life of middle class individuals, often without supporting Christian beliefs. In the eighteenth century, in the period leading up to the French Revolution, which brought about the final collapse of the economic and ideological structure of feudalism, realism took a great step forward, from the depiction of everyday life and manners to depiction of ... ...

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... the bourgeois society towards everything that threatened its own position of power demonstrated only too clearly how far it had moved from the standpoint of the revolutionary citizens of the French Revolution in 1789. Economic freedom has been a constant motivating force in the life of the individual. Capital gave a position of power in society; and once those positions had been won, the ... ...

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