Examples of French Revolution in the following topics:
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- During and after the French revolution, the academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, explored new and increasingly impressionist styles of painting with thick brushwork.
- Before the onset of the French Revolution, the middle of the eighteenth century saw a turn to Neoclassicism in France, that is to say a conscious use of Greek and Roman forms and iconography.
- The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French revolution.
- David's paintings are representative not only of the break between Rococo and Neoclassicalism, but also the glorification of republican virtues and revolutionary figures throughout the course of the French Revolution.
- The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars brought great changes to the arts in France.
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- In 1789, the French Revolution broke out, sending shock waves through Europe and the United States.
- From 1789 to 1792, as the French overthrew their monarchy and declared a republic, many Americans supported the revolution.
- To the Federalists, however, the French Revolution represented pure anarchy, especially after the execution of the French king in 1793.
- Indeed, the American Revolution served as an inspiration for French revolutionaries.
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) initiated a crisis in the European world and proved a challenge for early American foreign policy.
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- The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) began as a slave insurrection in French colony of Saint-Domingue and culminated in the abolition of slavery in the French Antilles and the founding of the Haitian republic.
- This racial tension imploded with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
- The French Revolution was at first widely welcomed by various factions on the island.
- As the white population grew more resistant to the French Revolution, the National Assembly granted more concessions to free people of color, further intensifying racial conflict.
- General Toussaint Louverture is the most widely known leaders of the Haitian Revolution
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- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of
the Citizen (August 1791) is a fundamental document of the French
Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
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the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population,
there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in
the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not.
- Modelled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen, it exposes the failure of the French Revolution, which had been devoted
to equality.
- Inspired by the American Revolution and also by the Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of freedom and democracy in Europe and worldwide.
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- Eighteenth-century French painting and sculpture was dominated by the Rococo and Neoclassical styles of art.
- Eighteenth-century French art was dominated by the Rococo and Neoclassical art.
- The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French Revolution, as typified in the structures La Madeleine Church, which is in the form of a Greek temple, and the mammoth Panthéon (1764-1812) modeled on the ancient Roman Pantheon.
- During the French Revolution, the Greek and Roman subject matters were also often chosen to promote the values of republicanism over the frivolous Rococo art of the nobility.
- Hence, there are many paintings that glorify the heroes and martyrs of the French Revolution, such as David's iconic painting of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, that are inspired by classical aesthetic forms.
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- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress, in the midst of the French Revolution and the undeclared naval war with France, the Quasi-War.
- Despite the XYZ Affair and the Quasi War, which had incited francophobic sentiment in the majority of the American public, Democrat-Republicans remained pro-French and outspoken critics of the Federalist administration.
- The Federalists, on the other hand, were suspicious of the Democrat-Republican party's affinity for France, especially since in the released dispatches of the XYZ affair, agent "Y" had boasted of the existence of a "French" party in American politics.
- The Federalist-dominated Congress believed that Democrat-Republicans, fueled by the French and French-sympathizing immigrants, posed a subversive threat to the United States.
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were codified attempts by the Federalists to protect the United States from the anarchy of the French Revolution and from those seditious elements seeking to undermine the federal government.
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- The origins of the French involvement in the American Revolution go back to the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763; the American theater in the Seven Years' War).
- Historians link those disasters to the coming of the French Revolution.
- The American Revolution also serves as an example of the transatlantic flow of ideas.
- Conversely, the American Revolution became the first in a series of upheavals in the Atlantic World that embodied the ideals of the Enlightenment and thus inspired others to follow the revolutionary spirit, including the French during their 1789 Revolution.
- The American Revolution was a powerful example of overthrowing an old regime for many Europeans who were active during the era of the French Revolution and the American Declaration of Independence influenced the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789.
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- The XYZ Affair refers to the bribes demanded by French agents in the negotiating dispatches to cease French seizures of American vessels.
- In the wake of the French Revolution relations between the new French Republic and the United States became ever more strained.
- After the United States' Jay Treaty with Britain, French outrage mounted.
- The French navy began to seize American merchant ships, and the French government refused to receive the American diplomat Charles Pinckney when he arrived in Paris in 1796.
- Republicans in Congress, thinking Adams might be hiding the truth about the agreements reached by the American and French delegates, demanded he release the French proposals.
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- The Treaty of Alliance was a defense treaty formed in the American Revolution that promised French support to the United States.
- French ministers feared that getting pulled into the American Revolution would put them at risk for another humiliating defeat: as Britain had a more well trained, larger army and a formidable navy than the American rebels.
- After signing the treaty, French supplies of arms, ammunition, and uniforms proved vital for the Continental Army.
- In particular, French involvement in the war would prove to be exceedingly important during the Siege of Yorktown when 10,800 French regulars and 29 French warships, under the command of the Comte de Rochambeau and Comte de Grasse respectively, joined forces with General Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette to obtain the surrender of Lord Cornwallis's Southern army.
- Satirical cartoon from England lampooning the excesses of the French Revolution as symbolized through the guillotine: between 18,000 and 40,000 people were executed during the Reign of Terror.
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- During the French Revolution, European monarchs watched the developments in France and considered whether they should intervene, either in support of Louis XVI or to take advantage of the chaos in France.
- The key figure, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, brother to the French Queen Marie Antoinette, had initially looked on the Revolution calmly.
- He became more and more disturbed as the Revolution became more radical, although he still hoped to avoid war.
- The Girondins, on the other hand, wanted to export the Revolution throughout Europe and, by extension, to defend the Revolution within France.
- Some Feuillants believed France had little chance to win, which they feared might lead to greater radicalization of the revolution.