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50% of the Third Estate is unemployed. Bad harvests leave us poor and hungry. 90% of us are peasants. We need change! We know what’s happening to us. Just because we are treated unequally, it doesn’t mean that we can’t think for ourselves!

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What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it ask? To become something.

Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (via whiskeyshakesfor10wholedays-blog)

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The Third Estate, The Nobilty, and the Clergy, 1790

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French Revolution (1789)

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The Articles

“All men are born and remain free and equal in rights” (Lafayette 1). For the basis of my entire argument, in the articles as I will call them from now on, I would like to discuss what rights I believe the people of France have and how their government will protect their rights. In the midst of the French revolution it is essential to bring up these topics and discuss what is truly beneficial to the country and its people, and distinguish what “natural, unalienable, and sacred rights” (Lafayette 1) all men were born with.

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Hey lovelies! I decided to post one of my concept maps today!

Concept Map Info

About: The French Revolution Causes & Effects + Events

Sources: Crash Course, Articles, and a Documentary assignment

DO NOT STEAL MY WORK! I work very hard and do a lot of research to complete these concept maps. They help me study and retain information as well as look nice! 

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The Tennis Court Oath, 1789

Third Estate: we’re gonna start our own representative body

King Louis XVI: you cant do that im the absolute ruler

Third Estate:

King Louis XVI:

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A non-exhaustive list of films about Marie Antoinette or in which Marie Antoinette plays a featured role that are available on DVD/digital. An asterisk denotes that the film is only available in French without subtitles.

Le Collier de la Reine (1929)*

La Marseillaise (1938)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

L’Affaire du Collier de la Reine (1946)*

Si Versailles M’Etait Conté (1954)*

Si Paris Nous Etait Conté (1956)*

Marie Antoinette (1956)

Marie Antoinette (1975)*

The Rose of Versailles (1979)

Lady Oscar (1979)

La Revolution Francaise (1989)

L'Autrichienne (1990)*

The Ghosts of Versailles (1991)

The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

Marie Antoinette, la veritable histoire (2006)*

Marie Antoinette (2006)

L'évasion de Louis XVI  (2009)

Louis XVI, the Man Who Didn’t Want to Be King (2011)

Farewell My Queen (2012)

The Fabulous Life of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (2015)

The Secret Versailles of Marie Antoinette (2018)

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Jean- Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683)

Cast: Steve Cumyn/ Versailles

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In 1791, Haiti, labouring under its colonial name of Saint Domingue, was the richest colony in the Americas. It had more plantations — sugar, cocoa, coffee, indigo, cotton — than all the Anglo-Caribbean islands put together. Its production, trade, and shipping were completely monopolised by France. The system depended on about half a million enslaved Africans doing the hard work

Great black hope by Jeremy Taylor

(via

caribbeancivilisation

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The Shameful History of How France Abolished Slavery

In 1315, Louis X, king of France, published a decree proclaiming that “France signifies freedom” and that any slave setting foot on the French ground should be freed. And France maintained that law, even after it began allowing slavery in its New World colonies in the 1600s. Any enslaved person who as brought to France became free. Born into slavery in Saint Domingue, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas became free when his father brought him to France in 1776.

Slavery in the French colonies was another story. The French crown regulated the slave trade and institution in the colonies, starting with Louis XIV’s Code Noir in 1685. The royal government had over 100 years of profiting from plantation-based slavery and particularly sugar production before the French Revolution killed the royal family and attempted to end slavery in the colonies. The first elected Assembly of the First Republic abolished slavery in France (since the royal law was no longer recognized) and more importantly in France’s colonies.

However, Napoleon restored slavery and the slave trade in 1802. This was mainly because of lobbying by planters in the West Indies, and to benefit from taxing the planter’s slavery-produced profits. In 1848, under the Second Republic, slavery was totally abolished in the French colonies. And this time it stuck.

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Ensemble

c.1790

LACMA

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Louis xv, With 5 bags with gucci and channel tags, sneaking through the main door into the hallway: I hope Cardinal de Fleury isn't around here.

Cardinal de Fleury, right there: so i heard you spent money.

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Mobilier Louis XV - Musée du Louvre - Paris

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Woman’s Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française) circa 1765. [credit: LACMA Collections]