Explanation
The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of social groups, termed the middle class, who earned their wealth through an expanding overseas trade and from the manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles that were either exported or bought by the richer members of society.
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin".
Jean-Paul Marat was one of the great political theorist, physician, and scientist who is best known for his role as a radical journalist during the French revolution.
He published his views in his newspaper called L’Ami du people which mean 'friend of people' made him even closer to the then revolutionists called Jacobins.
The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was Napoleon’s final defeat by the Duke of Wellington. He was imprisoned in the island of St. Helena where he eventually died in 1821.
The French Parliament is the bicameral legislature of the French Republic, consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly. Each assembly conducts legislative sessions at a separate location in Paris: the Palais du Luxembourg for the Senate and the Palais Bourbon for the National Assembly.
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history. His most famous work was a representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen he made in 1790.
The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of continental Europe in the early 19th century. He was defeated by the Duke of Wellington.
France society, before the French Revolution, was divided into three estates: the First Estate (clergy); the Second Estate (nobility); and the Third Estate (commoners).
French revolution happened in 1789 and Napoleon rose to be Emperor of French in 1804. The circumstances that aided the rise of Napoleon from petty army officer to Emperor were borne out of revolution. Hence he is called the "Child of Revolution"
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