Unfortunately, like the Bourbons after the French Revolution, they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
As minister to France, Morris took a pessimistic view of how the French Revolution would proceed.
Democracy led to the Terror and Napoleonic Wars after the French Revolution in 1789.
The French revolution provides an example, but also demonstrates the authors' unfortunate habit of ignoring historical detail.
"In short, adherence of the principle of non-default created the French Revolution, " he told the Munich Economic Summit.
But that love led him to headlong support of a French Revolution that proved more demonic than liberating.
The most popular theory rests on the Saint Omer Jesuit College and the fate of its own library during the French Revolution.
The French Revolution had surprisingly little impact on the tastes of theatre audiences, which remained as conservative as before.
Until the French Revolution, there were few opportunities to see old-master paintings outside sale-rooms, churches, palaces and private houses.
It was written in 1797, late in the decade of the French Revolution.
In 1789, the Bretons fought against the French revolution and suffered repression of their native language by French central government.
Even in the U.K. 25, 000 died in consequence and disruption to farming is said to have precipitated the French Revolution.
The French revolution was the big bang of catastrophe theory, he said, and its effects had not yet been exhausted.
Even when the French revolution finally came, its self-appointed guardians had no place for the philosophy of the true radicals.
The European left, at least since the time of the French Revolution, has waged open war on religious institutions and ideas.
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But it was only 50 years before they disappeared from women's feet too, falling out of favour after the French Revolution.
It smacks too much of saying that the ends justify the means, which conservatives have condemned since at least the French Revolution.
Catering to the public at large, it reported on events both domestic and international (e.g. there was much interest in the French Revolution).
During the French Revolution, she was imprisoned, and later commissioned to create death masks of many of those put to death on the guillotine.
Petersburg was still the confection of a nation without an economy and the reason the French Revolution would be replayed with a Marxist script.
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In the 1970s, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai his opinion on the chief consequences of the French Revolution.
I'm reminded here of Zhou En-lai and his famous verdict on the success, or otherwise, of the French Revolution--that it's too early to tell.
As a young man, he was excited by the French revolution, and he retained an idealised view of Napoleon to the end of his life.
Institutions, in the form of a fledgling merchant class, provided momentum for reform, making the difference between the successful French revolution and failed uprisings elsewhere.
Perhaps we should have mediated the French Revolution, or issued a preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo while we decided whether we had jurisdiction?
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The French revolution swept away Malesherbes and several of his family.
The Swiss adopted juries for some matters including criminal trials after the French Revolution, he says, but by now the concept has been largely abandoned.
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Remember that old French Revolution slogan about fraternity, liberty and equality.
From the French Revolution to the Chinese one, most revolutionary leaders have been university-educated, middle-class people who were marginalized by society and had their hopes thwarted.
Arriving in Paris in the midst of the French Revolution, she took a dramatic part in saving Lafayette's wife, imprisoned and expecting death on the guillotine.
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