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Louis took his position as king very seriously. He saw that what was good for him was good for France
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Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong, undivided government.
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Critics embraced his poem, La Henriade, but its satirical attack on politics and religion infuriated the government, and Voltaire was arrested in 1717. He spent nearly a year in the Bastille.
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The aim of the Encyclopedia was to gather all available knowledge, to examine it critically and rationally, and to use it for social advancement.
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French expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought France into armed conflict with the British colonies
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is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality. The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France.
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The American Revolution was a time when the British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of Great Britain. There were many battles fought and the colonies gained their freedom and became the independent country of the United States.
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is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General
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the French National Constituent Assembly issued the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizenship which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.
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The National Convention had convicted the king in a near-unanimous vote and condemned him to death by a simple majority
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formed the provisional government in France during the Reign of Terror, a phase of the French Revolution
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It is because of his position as rapporteur of the commission that the creation of the republican calendar is attributed to Romme. The calendar is frequently named the "French Revolutionary Calendar" because it was created during the Revolution, but this is a slight misnomer.
