The last king of France wasLouis XVI. When the Kingdom was passed on to him, the state was practically bankrupted from wars. He tried to help the financial situation by adding a new land tax, which triggeredFrench Revolutionand in turn, his own execution and the end of French royalty. ...
It was established under pressure from citizens’ associations and government policies initiated by political events. The protests in Brazil and South America against the commemoration of the “discovery” of the Americas, and the reaction to the...
War of independen ce The colonists resisted the new taxes and regulations imposed by England the British government found that the Boston people had made “tea with salt water” in 1774. At Lexington The fighting began. process process
They occurred within the space of a hundred years, and all of them led to war between the English and the French. Volume IV, The Great Democracies, is more detailed, covering only eighty-five years of 19th century history: recovery after the Treaty of Vienna, the mid-century reforms, the...
French National Committee (Comité National Français), for which he boldly claimed the status of a legal government-in-exile. During the next three years, first in London and then (after 1943) in Algiers, he insisted on his right to speak for France and on France’s right to be heard...
This battle took place between the Norman-French army led by William the Conqueror and the English army led by Harold Godwinson. It was a pivotal event in English history as it resulted in the Norman conquest of England, leading to significant political and social changes in the country. ...
he cabledTimesthat the Pehtang Cathedral was rescued. Foreign forces controlled Beijing. There was no government here. French and Russian flags flew in the best parts of the Forbidden City. The Empress Dowager Cixi, the Emperor and Prince Duan had fled to Taiyuan in Shanxi. Their destination ...
They occurred within the space of a hundred years, and all of them led to war between the English and the French. Volume IV, The Great Democracies, is more detailed, covering only eighty-five years of 19th century history: recovery after the Treaty of Vienna, the mid-century reforms, the...
them at the time, but at the time he called them in French simply "The Will to Know," "La Volonté de Savoir," but then he subsequently wrote that little introduction to a history of sexuality and gave the same title, "La Volonté de Savoir," to the "History of Sexuality," Volume ...
Jean-Baptiste Say was a French classical liberal economist. Born in 1767, Say worked in the French government under Napoleon (who later let him go) and as a professor of political economy at various schools in France. Say was influenced by Adam Smith, who is considered the father of modern...