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.
But that love led him to headlong support of a French Revolution that proved more demonic than liberating.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The French revolution was fought for the rights of the collective and the state, while the American colonists battled for themselves and the rights of individuals.
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It's set in a graveyard in Paris in the years leading up to the French Revolution and was praised by the judges as representing the era vividly.
Andrew Miller won last year for his fictional story Pure, about an engineer named Jean-Baptiste Baratte working in a Parisian cemetery in the run-up to the French Revolution.
The same Jacques-Louis David whose The Death of Marat lionized the Jacobin ideal of the French Revolution went on to glorify imperial rule in The Coronation of Napoleon.
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It dates back to the French Revolution, when a local farm-girl, Marie Harel, was supposedly given the recipe by an abbot from Brie on the run from a Revolutionary mob.
Real Tennis continued to grow in popularity and was widely played in the 17th and 18th century, but by the French Revolution and with European royal families besieged, interest dwindled.
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Finding fame making wax deathmasks of those executed in the French Revolution, she later came to Britain where she set up a permanent exhibition of wax models of contemporary people.
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