DemocracyrepresentationFrench RevolutionDirectoryAntonellerepresentative democracyThis article examines the political thought of Pierre-Antoine Antonelle, a prominent democrat during the French Revolution. In pamphlets and newspaper articles between 1795 and 1799 he put forth an elaborate theory of '...
Indeed, since, in my excitement, I have arrived 20 minutes early, I have time to read in a brochure that Home House used to be the French Embassy at the time of the French Revolution. Which makes it an apt setting for a "French" rendezvous (the more so considering the sitcom she ...
After the French Revolution of 1848, his friend Hippolyte Carnot, who was appointed the Minister of Public Instruction and Religion, recruited Charton as Secretary General of the Ministry. It was the beginning of his political career. Although an opponent of Napoleon III's 1852 Second ...
The sacrilegious use of the name of the “son of god” is evident. In this respect, we find allusions that could have popularized these expressions in the atheist environment of the French Revolution and since the end of the 18th century (Sade, Denis Diderot). They related to the “inconve...
List of notable or famous playwrights from France, with bios and photos, including the top playwrights born in France and even some popular playwrights who ...
the narrative records the reasons for and consequences of Shalmani’s atheist family’s decision to leave Iran for France a few years after the 1979 revolution. In so doing, it provides a framework for the writer to set out and interrogate the conflicting forces that shaped her, as well as...
(as in a classroom or newspaper) or weekly (as in a regular television program or magazine) or monthly, in all cases to some larger audience.” The authors trace the rise of separatist activity in Quebec to the “quiet revolution” in opening up education to the province's blue-collar ...
The Army of the French Revolution: From Citizen-Soldiers to Instrument of Power Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authoritative treatment of the first great national, patriotic, revolutionary, and mass army, ...
Queen Marie Antoinette helped provoke the French Revolution that led to the monarchy’s end in 1792. Read about her children, death, movies about her, and more.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. A great people may be killed, but they will not be intimidated. He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat. Love does more harm than good. A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death. It ...