He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic ... of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all ... joined the forces of the French Republic as a brigadier general, and turned his troops against Spain. In 1797 Toussaint was made commander ...

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.

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...