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Hace 1 día · Louis Napoleon was the first and only president of the French Second Republic, elected in 1848. He seized power by force in 1851 when he could not constitutionally be re-elected. He later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French and founded the Second Empire , reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia ...
Hace 1 día · The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
- French franc and various other currencies
- Colonial empire
Hace 1 día · The French Revolutionary Wars ( French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries.
- 20 April 1792 – 27 March 1802, (9 years, 11 months, and 5 days)
Hace 4 días · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 17, 2024 • Article History. Louis XVI: execution by guillotine. Also called: Revolution of 1789. Date: 1787 - 1799. Location: France. Participants: bourgeoisie. Montagnard. peasant. philosophe. sansculotte. Major Events: Coup of 18–19 Brumaire. Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship b...
- There were many reasons. The bourgeoisie—merchants, manufacturers, professionals—had gained financial power but were excluded from political power....
- King Louis XVI of France yielded to the idea of a new constitution and to the sovereignty of the people but at the same time sent emissaries to the...
- In some respects, the French Revolution did not succeed. But the ideas of representational democracy and basic property rights took hold, and it so...
Hace 2 días · Napoléon Bonaparte. Original Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. Byname: the Corsican or the Little Corporal. French byname: Le Corse or Le Petit Caporal. Born: August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica. Died: May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island (aged 51) Title / Office: emperor (1815-1815), France. emperor (1804-1814), France. Founder: Saint-Cyr.
- Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–...
- Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- Napoleon served as first consul of France from 1799 to 1804. In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code...
- After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
Hace 4 días · Preston’s vision of Franco is clearly hostile, and this hostility extends to his analysis of the political right, particularly during the torturous life of the Spanish Second Republic (1931–39). Payne’s and Palacios’ vision is exactly the opposite.
Hace 3 días · The Danish socialist Gustav Bang, in 1909–10, wrote that the bourgeoisie ‘more and more consciously … strove for a new constitutional form, a republic or a constitutional monarchy, where the centre of gravity would be in a representative assembly, where the wealthy bourgeoisie had the upper hand''.
