... general named Napoleon Bonaparte staged a coup d" etat to take control of France and create a virtual Dictatorship. Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. A child of the Enlightenment and advanced in the ranks by the revolution, Napoleon strove to create a meritocracy, ... to pay without it being approved by Parliament first were arrested and imprisoned arbitrarily. The petition demanded that Charles cease this violation of English civil rights and disregarding of Parliament's powers and said that he would receive no more funds until he...

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... not one revolution, but four. Firstly, the revolt of the aristocracy, which destroyed the monarchy as the nobility sought to regain the pre eminence in the state of which Louis XVI had deprived them. Unable to affect their revolution alone, the nobility succeeded with the help ... , a class struggle against the aristocracy which lasted until the creation of the National assembly in June 1789.7 The bourgeoisie aimed to form civil equality and establish a regime where all men obeyed the same laws. These ideals stemmed from the Enlightenment, the intellectual product of the ... aristocrat...

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... artifacts that are more than 100,000 years old. During the 16th century, Protestantism spread across France leading to a number of religious and civil wars. The wars between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics resulted in the massacre of some 3,000 Protestants in Paris on the eve ... Gaulle. Allied and Free French forces liberated France in 1944. Parliamentary democracy was restored to France under the Fourth Republic. Another costly war against nationalist guerrillas in Algeria and other French colonies during the 1950's brought an end to the Fourth Republic. In 1958, Gaulle ... N...

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