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	Prelude
		Prelude In G Major Prelude in G major is a generic title for any piece of key of G major.
		Prelude to Foundation Prelude to Foundation is a novel written by psychohistory and intellectual hero of the series.
		The Prelude The Prelude is an autobiographical William Wordsworth.
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	Revolution
		Belgian Revolution The Belgian Revolution was a conflict in the 1839.
		French Revolution From The Abolition Of Feudalism To The
		July Revolution The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, was a revolt by the middle class aga...
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	French Revolution
		The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which republicanss overthrew the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring.
		As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloodshed.
		The French people were in no temper to be dictated to by foreign monarchs, and the threat of force merely resulted in the militarization of the frontiers.
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	Talk:French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maybe we should have French Revolutions with links to French Revolution of 1789, French Revolution of 1830, French Revolution of 1848, Fronde, Vendee, French May 1968, Commune de Paris and whatever may be.
		The roots of the French Revolution can be traced to XV, but it was the privileges (nearly absurd when examined in depth) that the Old Noblesse (including the church Noblesse) refused to give up that created a frustration by ordinary people that change would never come.
		The idiocy of the "age of wit" at the French court under XVI exemplifies the decay underway.
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	French Revolution Resources
		Special mention must be made of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, an excellent initiative on the part of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History Project (CUNY).
		Prelude to Terror: The constituent assembly and the failure of consenses, 1789-91.
		The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution, 1793-4.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/ancien_regime.html (345 words)

	Chapter 10 Page 1
		The powerful influence of the French Revolution can be traced in the reactions of those who witnessed the event firsthand and in the strong emotions it has aroused ever since.
		For some, the French Revolution was a beacon of light that gave a world dominated by aristocratic privilege and monarchical tyranny a hope of freedom.
		Burke went beyond criticizing the French revolutionaries; he offered the first systematic defense of "conservative" principles, arguing that gradual change and a kind of organic continuity in society stretching across the generations were preferable to violent, rapid upheavals in the structure of government.
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	The Trilateral Center: Benjamin Franklin and the New World Order
		And the American Revolution was a prelude to that French Revolution that was to launch a world-wide revolutionary campaign to free oppressed peoples throughout the world by bringing them republican or democratic government, beginning with a stable, consolidated Concert of Europe, with America as its guiding force, its ideological inspiration--its Trilateral Center.
		The intertwining of French and American foreign affairs occurred with the blessings of prominent Enlightened Americans--particulary Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--who enlisted the aid of the government of French King Louis XVI (specifically, the Enlightened foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes) to gain independence for America's future Republic.
		On the contrary: the seedtime of the French Revolution was during Benjamin Franklin's ministry to France--and that American was the seed-planter.
	www.belcherfoundation.org /trilateral_center.htm (3039 words)

	Lecture 11: The Origins of the French Revolution
		The outbreak of the French Revolution in the summer of 1789 stirred the imagination of nearly all Europeans.
		The French revolutionaries - that is, those men and women who made conscious choices - sensed in their hearts and minds that they were witnessing the birth of a new age.
		Lastly, there is little doubt that the American Revolution of the 1770s and the formation of a republic in the 1780s served as a profound example to all European observers.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture11a.html (3426 words)

	French Revolution - InformationBlast
		The French Revolution, as a period in the history of France, covers the years 1789 to 1799, in which republicans overthrew the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring.
		A regiment of the French guard - favourably disposed towards the popular cause - joined the rebellious citizenry; as word of this spread, even the foreign troops refused to fight in what looked set to turn into a civil war with a divided military.
		After the events surrounding the storming of the Bastille, the next major event of the revolution occurred on August 4, 1789, when the National Assembly abolished feudalism, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.
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	Commentary Magazine - Demystifying the French Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		...When the French nobility took advantage of the impending bankruptcy of the crown [in 1787-88] to provoke a political crisis, in the hope of winning a conservative constitution like that of Great Britain, the middle class took charge of the movement and converted it into a social revolution...
		...No later French historian, not even Furet, has been able or willing wholly to shake off the domination of Michelet, for whom the revolutionaries were always right, whatever their actions, because they were defending the cause of universal freedom and justice, which only evil or ill-informed people could oppose...
		...The Revolution was also a clash of country against town, and poor against rich, and in the end proved economically retarding and a triumph for the conservative, landowning classes...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V88I1P44-1.htm (5669 words)

	The French Revolution - France.com
		The French crown, which was fiscally one and the same as the French state, was deep in debt.
		The Third Estate, theoretically representing the other 98% of the French population and, in practice, representing an increasing proportion of the country's wealth, could still be outvoted by the other two Estates, which historically had often voted with each other.
		However, with the etiquette of 1614 strictly enforced, the clergy and nobility in their full regalia, the physical locations of the deputies from the three estates dictated by the protocol of an earlier era, there was an immediate hint that less had, in fact, been achieved.
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	French Revolution - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The French Revolution is a period in the history of France covering the years 1789-1799, in which the monarchy was overthrown and radical restructuring was forced upon the Roman Catholic Church.
		The French system of absolute monarchy collided with a large and growing middle class that had absorbed the ideology of equality and freedom of the individual, brought about by such philosophers as Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Turgot, and other theorists of the Enlightenment.
		The slightest hint of counter-revolutionary thoughts or activities (or, as in the case of Jacques Hébert, revolutionary zeal exceeding that of those in power) could place one under suspicion, and the trials were not over-scrupulous.
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	Prelude to Revolution
		With the Revolution came the British that were garrisoned in the city with such effect that Newport never recovered its previous commercial vitality.
		In the high commerce years preceding the Revolution, the quest for improved standards of living commensurate with Europeans was achieved with purchase of manufactured goods largely in England.
		The French were the primary challengers of British power at that time, and the Caribbean had become the cross-roads of world trade.
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	French Revolution Time Line
		From the abolition of feudalism to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy August 4, 1789 - July 12, 1790 main article French Revolution from the abolition of feudalism to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
		By way of prelude to this patriotic fête, on June 20, the Assembly, at the urging of the popular members of the nobility, abolished all titles, armorial bearings, liveries, and orders of knighthood, destroying the symbolic paraphernalia of the ancien régime.
		The first significant military engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars occurred with the Franco-Prussian Battle of Valmy (September 20, 1792).
	www.bonjourlafrance.net /france-history/french-revolution.htm (3238 words)

	Student Response: Wordsworth's Experience of the French Revolution in The Prelude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		With everyone in France concentrated on the Revolution, "The Senate was heart-stricken, not a voice uplifted, not to oppose or mitigate; domestic carnage now filled all the year." Wordsworth never expected a revolution to be so universal.
		It seems as though Wordsworth expected the revolution to be contained within a small group while the rest of France went on with their business.
		Upon seeing what a bloody mess a revolution could be, Wordsworth begin to feel sorry for those who could still hold on to their ideals while so many were dieing for them.
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	Iranica.com - vi. PERSIA AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
		The French Revolution inspired many generations of Persian commentators who described it directly or obliquely in terms of what they regarded as its salient characteristics such as sedition (fetna), corruption (fesa@d), a general disturbance by the populace (balwa@-ye ¿a@mm), insurrection (æu@reæ), the great revolution (enqela@b-e ¿azá^m), and the great revolution (enqela@b-e kab^r; Rouhbakhshan, p.
		In later decades, some reformist writers cited the French Revolution as an illustration of a historical precedent in their endeavors to reform the state (dawlat), to empower the people (mellat), and to imagine a constitutionally-based Persia.
		With the emergence of the Tudeh party and the development of a socialist political discourse, the enthusiasm for the French Revolution was condensed into and displaced by the memory of the Russian Revolution and its promise of social equality.
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	Prelude to the French and Indian War
		The French and Indian War was another in a long series of conflicts involving British colonials, French settlers and soldiers, and Native Americans (Indians) that extend back almost to the earliest days of settlement.
		The French were concerned with establishing a trading network to reap the fur trade and possibly precious metals to fill the coffers of France.
		The French were more apt to cultivate a friendship with the natives; French traders would often marry into a native tribe to solidify a good commercial relationship.
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	French Revolution
		IN order to appreciate what was accomplished by the French Revolution, we must consider it under two aspects,—the one simply preparatory, the other entirely characteristic, under the respective conduct of the two great National Assemblies.
		This abolition, without which the French Revolution would not have been fully characterized, was soon to be followed by partial demolitions destined to complete the indication of an irresistible tendency to an entire renovation of the social system, as far as the only philosophy which could at that time direct this activity permitted.
		In this strange provisionary situation, consider the result of the implicit renunciation by those in office of any serious notion of a mental reorganization, their unfitness for which was recognized by themselves.
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	AllLearn - Alliance for Lifelong Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		For decades, the French Revolution was seen in Marxist terms - as an unfolding class struggle.
		This one volume combines two fascinating contemporary analyses of the French Revolution: the first by the virtual father of conservatism, Edmund Burke, and the latter by the American radical, Thomas Paine.
		The French lyrics, two English translations (one literal, one more "singable"), and a Real Audio clip of the gory French national anthem are all available here from the Modern History Sourcebook.
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	PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION
		British or French soldiers out on patrol would pass by a German patrol without a shot being fired, it was common to fly a white flag at a certain point on the trench parapet beyond which was the toilet, and the 'enemy' would not fire on that area.
		The French general Nivelle (widely held responsible for the bloodbath at Chemin de Dames) was replaced by Pétain as a sop to the soldiers.
		The bourgeoisie deceives the people by working on their noble pride in the revolution and by pretending that the social and political character of the war, as far as Russia was concerned, underwent a change because of this stage of the revolution...
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	French Revolution in History and French Historic Events in the Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas ...
		The French Revolution is a period in the history of France covering the years
		While France was to oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup by Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ancien régime.
		The French military began to arrive in large numbers around Paris and Versailles.
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	Opening Causes and Events of the American Revolution
		The American Revolution, viewed from its results, was one of the greatest movements in human history.
		Still again, during the late war with the French, the British officers were ever ready to show their contempt for the provincial troops, and colonial officers were often replaced by British officers.
		All these things were at least unpleasant for the American-Englishman to contemplate; but they were not serious, and their effects would have passed away like a morning mist but for the greater events that were to follow.
	usahistory.info /American-Revolution (773 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age: Topic 3: Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The apocalyptic and millennial books in the Bible are readily convertible into a scenario for political revolution, since they consist of an infallible text ordaining a necessary destruction of the forces of evil and guaranteeing the outcome of this violence in peace, plenty, and consummate happiness.
		The late eighteenth century was another age of widespread apocalyptic expectation, when the promise of the American Revolution, followed by the greater and more radical expectations raised by the early years of the French Revolution, revived among a number of English Nonconforming sects the millenarian excitement of Milton and other seventeenth-century predecessors.
		That is, Romantic thought and imagination remained apocalyptic in form, but with a radical shift from faith in a violent outer transformation to faith in an inner moral and imaginative transformation — a shift from political revolution to a revolution in consciousness — to bring into being a new heaven and new earth.
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	French Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences of The French Revolution
		But the French experience convinced more and more people during the course of an initially reactionary nineteenth century that popular sovereignty, national independence, and constitutional government were the new forces in world history.
		The purpose of this unit is to study the significance of the French Revolution, understand its origins, see how France was transformed by revolution, and assess the importance of revolution as a tool for political modernization.
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	The French Revolution Infos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The French humorists from the twelfth to the nineteenth century
		The French Stage and Playhouse in the Xviith Century A Study in the Advent of the Italian Order Ams Studies in the Seventeenth Century No 1
		The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England
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	The Hindu : Nation in disarray
		A situation like this was the prelude to the French Revolution when people standing in the streets read aloud Rousseau's ``Social Contract'' emphasising the public good.
		Rammanohar Lohia had warned that ``the system of castes is a terrifying force of stability and against change, a force that stabilises all current meanness, dishonour and lie.'' He had wanted Dalits to be pushed into positions of power.
		Looking around, I find an eerie similarity to the period of the French Revolution which made Rousseau say ``when a prince no longer administers the state according to laws then the state is dissolved, the social pact is broken'' and political life has been destroyed''.
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