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but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife ... s story in France had begun just a few years prior. In late 1789, during a discussion about reforming the French penal ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...

By 1789 France was broke ... ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system ...

the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland and on Belfast in particular. The revolution sent shockwaves ...