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French and Revolution
However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.
Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.
He cites the French Revolution as typifying this rigidity but makes no mention of the Italians, who have been able to adapt to all types of circumstances.
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.
* 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
The school deals primarily with the premodern world ( before the French Revolution ), with little interest in later topics.
The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search
* 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.
His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.
* 1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
* 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.
At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.
The French Revolution was now extending its shocks over Italy ; and Canova sought obscurity and repose in his native Possagno.
* 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
* Six reliefs sculpted on the façades of the Arch, representing important moments of the French Revolution and of the Napoleonic era include:
* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.
His youth was spent in Tuscany, at Vienna and in the Austrian Netherlands, where he began his career of military service in the war of the French Revolution.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

French and Conservative
Thereafter, the Conservative Party was the " Liberal-Conservative " ( in French, " Libéral-Conservateur ") Party until the turn of the twentieth century.
The Liberals, under Wilfrid Laurier ( a French Catholic ), took advantage of the division in the Conservative party.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ( in French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l ' Ontario ), is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada.
The Reds criticized the Conservative government for its reactionary policy with reference to the peasants but, deluded in its hopes by Napoleon III, the Government counted on French support and persisted in its tactics.
Born in Paris, Goldsmith was the son of luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) Major Frank Goldsmith and his French wife Marcelle Moullier, and younger brother of environmental campaigner Edward Goldsmith.
Macdonald died in 1891 and, without his leadership, the Conservative coalition began to unravel under the pressure of sectarian tensions between Catholic French Canadians and British imperialists who tended to be anti-French and anti-Catholic.
Before initiating his presidential career, González played important roles in the French intervention in Mexico as a lieutenant, and later in the Reform War as general, in the service of the Conservative Party.
Nationalist politicians from Quebec ( sometimes Liberal, sometimes Conservative ) were elected on programs which stated how they were to defend the constitutional guarantees granted by Great Britain to French Canadians in order to protect their nationality.
Under the leadership of John Major, Nicholls served as Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party but was again forced to resign, after labelling Germans " warmongers " and the French " collaborators ".
Ultimately, the new Petre P. Carp Conservative cabinet agreed to allow his return to Romania, following pressures from the French Premier Georges Clemenceau ( who answered an appeal by Jean Jaurès ).
In 1999 Conservative Future attracted national attention following a re-branding exercise that used the slogan " CFUK ", a twist on the French Connection FCUK brand.
The CFUK branding was to be used on promotional material for university branches from late August to mid October 1999 but the threat of court proceedings from French Connection over breach of copyright led to Conservative Future withdrawing the promotion in early October, just before the end of the campaign.
In September 1998, following his selection as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the East Midlands, Helmer left his job as Managing Director of a Leicester textile company, Donisthorpe Ltd ( the UK subsidiary of a French textile multinational ), to campaign full time ahead of the 1999 euro-elections, and took up his new role as an MEP immediately afterwards.
This was no longer Robespierre's Republic, which was more radical, or the oligarchic liberal Republic of the Directory, but the autocratic Roman Republic of Caesar Augustus, a Conservative Republic, which reminded the French of stability, order, and peace.
During the 2008 Conservative Party Conference, Gove argued that Edmund Burke, an eighteenth-century philosopher who commented on organic society and the French Revolution, was the greatest conservative ever.
In 1984, Brian Mulroney warned Sherman and other Tories that they must support French language rights of minorities outside Quebec in order to run as Progressive Conservative candidate.
: " i ) A Conservative Government will support the Official Languages Act ensuring that English and French have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada.
Former mayor Leonard Jones, who took a tough stance against French language education, won the Progressive Conservative Party nomination for the 1974 election, but party leader Robert Stanfield refused to sign his nomination papers because of Jones ' opposition to party policy on Official bilingualism.
Dow ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative incumbent Errick French Willis by over 1, 000 votes in the southern riding of Turtle Mountain.
( Conservative Rank of Students ), Dominoes Club, Democratic Student Alliance, Drama Club, Fairchild Tropical Challenge, Film Club, French Club, French Honor Society, Future Business Leaders of America, Intramural Athletics, Key Club, Math Honor Society-Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, Robotics Club, Salsa Club, Science Honors Society, Scuba Dive Club, Squires, Rho Kappa and History Club, Spanish Club, Spanish Honor Society, Recycling Club, Speech and Debate, Squires Club, Student Activities Committee-S. A. C, Surf and Skate Club, The Log, Tournament Video Game Club, Retro Gamers Club, Weight Lifting, World Languages Club.
* 1930-1935: Errick French Willis-Progressive Conservative
The city decayed again after its sack during the ( defeated ) Napoleonic French invasions of Portugal, and the following Civil War between supporters of the Liberal Constitutionalist D. Pedro and his brother Conservative Absolutist D. Miguel for the throne.
However, the Montreal hospital is the only Shriners hospital to feature French-language access, and those Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Americans, and Québécois worried about a reduction in French language service, due to governmental decisions in Ontario that reduced French language health care by the previous Progressive Conservative government.

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