does anybody know anything about the french revolution?

Question

i need help with this stupid project. i have until monday to do this. i need to know anything you know about this. if u have any kind of projects u did as a kid and still have it, please send it to me or just what you know!!!!

Answer 1

You will get more reliable answers by researching the internet. If all students look for the easy, dishonest way out in their education our future is in great danger.

DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. History is never 'stupid'. What we forget we will have to repeat.

Answer 2

I've printed a textbook description of The French Revolution below, but I will tell you the limited facts I know about it.

It was a war started by the masses in revolt against the tyrnannical king, Louis XVI. This was in part due to the fact that the vast majority of the French population lived in poverty, while Louis XVI lived in the pleasure palace of Versailles. The King had no regard for the suffering of his peasents, and while thousands starved to death in the streets and countryside, Louis XVI threw lavish costume balls at the Palace of Versailles.

France had also bankrupted it's economy at the expense of the people's suffering to finance the American War of Independence. There was widespread resentment for this since the French themselves were not free.

I won't go into all the details but I will give a little trivia I know about it.

1. The French Revolution brought led tot the rise of Napolean Bonaparte.

2. The French saw the Catholic church as part of the problem. After the revolution, they abolished the Catholic church and even the Christian calender.

The Revolutionary calendar was established in October 1793, but Year I was made effective on September 22, 1792 (both the autumnal equinox and the anniversary of some event of the Revolution). The Revolutionary calendar had 12 months of 30 days, plus 5 or 6 leap days (with a rule for leap years).

3. The Guillotine came into widespread use after the fall of the monarchy. The device derives its name from Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French doctor and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly,

4. Former King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were executed in 1793. The Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced thousands to the guillotine. Nobility and commoners, intellectuals, politicians and prostitutes, all were liable to be executed on little or no grounds; suspicion of "crimes against liberty" was enough to earn one an appointment with "Madame Guillotine"

The rest is taken directly from text, and I will give you a couple of good sources to find out more.

I hope my this helps some.

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a pivotal period in the history of French, European and Western civilization. During this time, republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the country's Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo a radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup d'état, the Revolution is widely seen as a major turning point in the history of Western democracy—from the age of absolutism and aristocracy, to the age of the citizenry as the dominant political force.

The slogan of the French Revolution was "Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort!" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death!"). This slogan outlived the revolution, later becoming the rallying cry of activists, both militant and non-violent, who promote democracy or overthrow of oppressive governments.

Answer 3

It was the first Real revolution. The American revolution was simply a change of Government. The French revolution was a total change. Never before had a King been deposed by the people and a Republic formed. This is the revolution that all others have come to be measured against.