Bastille

Many people were killed in the fight. Eventually the enraged people broke through the defenses. They killed the guards and the commander and released prisoners. Although they succeeded, they did not find any weapons. Bastille day is still celebrated today, and a symbol Bastille is up today. I represented the years of abuse by the monarchy. It hit me bad, it showed me what is actually happening in the world. This event showed a challenge to the sheer existence of the regime. Since 1880, …

INTRO: In the late 1780’s France had undergone quite a bit of change. Me, a middle aged man and middle class citizen, was caught in the raths of all of these power struggles. Being a radical, I was all for a change but, nothing seemed to be a permanent fix. People from all over came to take control but it seems as though we were too far gone to be helped. Many revisions to the government took place and many lives were lost. All of the estates were put to the test and now, bowing at the feet of…

The Reign of Terror began in 1793, in France. A man named Robespierre had seized power after King Louis XVI was beheaded via the guillotine. King Louis was an absolutist ruler, who was to blame for the Reign of Terror. Also another big factor was internal rebellion along with outside invasion. All of this had taken it’s toll, and started the tragic event that was the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was necessary because King Louis created the situation. The 3rd Estate in France didn’t…

Social reform during the French Revolution developed due to the unfair political system, brutality perpetrated by the first estate, and the living conditions the lower class lived through, nevertheless the violence and genocide committed in order to create reform was immoral. Prior to the French Revolution, people of influence abused the political system in order to allow them to live in luxury. The government consisted of the first, second and third estate. The First Estate is composed of…

Manette being freed from the bastille. The phrase “recalled to life” applies here, and most of the other examples of resurrection we see in this novel. This is considered a resurrection because he was almost dead because of how long he stayed in the bastille. He was also revived in a sense because his mind was almost gone. He was so disoriented and lost from humanity that he could barely think…

Introduction Before 1789 France was still in the Old Regime, which means the people in France were divided into three large social classes called estates. The First Estate held the clergy, the Second Estate was rich nobles, and finally the Third estate was everybody else, they remain 97% of the population. In the late 1780’s French people were faced starvation because of the bad harvest. Also, France was in huge debt due to King Louis XIV and his queen, Marie Antoinette, who continued to live on…

The Reign of Terror was a period of time when many ordinary citizens, dictators, and political figures were executed. Maximilien Robespierre, a jacobin leader, governed France and during this time many causes happened like the Battles in France, the establishment of the Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre's leadership of the Jacobins. As Wars continue, the National Convention had to deal with Austria and Prussia, which turned back at the Battle of Valmy. When they took office, the…

believing that it was “an opening of a royal offensive against the National Constituent Assembly and the city” (pg. 556). This led to the start of the revolution where extremely large crowds stormed the Bastille. “Most of them small shoe keepers, tradespeople, artisans, and wage earners, marched to the Bastille to get weapons for the militia” (pg. 556). This act was the first of many to come in this revolution and it resulted in citizens declaring themselves as their own political…

for the sake of Lucie Manette, whom they love. How are these characters’ morals shown through their deception and how do the nuances of their motives impact both Lucie and the novel? Doctor Manette took to shoemaking while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. After Lucie helped him return to humanity, Manette stopped his habit; however, when he was worried, he would return to his shoemaking. Because Manette…

long awaited revolution has begun after storming into Bastille. After Madame Defarge cuts off the head of the governor, the passage states, seven prisoners released, seven glory heads of pikes,”(Dickens 230). This part shows that the violence has already begun and that there is more to come in France. The crowd of people were ruthless and after waiting for so long, this was the moment they have been waiting for. Therefore, this storming of Bastille was a symbolic moment that marked the beginning…