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French Revolution - LearningSpace - OpenLearn - The Open
University - This unit provides basic historical background to the
French Revolution. It will show that the Revolution accelerated
intellectual, cultural and psychological change, and opened up new
horizons and possibilities. In fact, while much controversy and
skepticism remain as to the real extent of underlying change in the
social and economic structure of France, it is generally agreed by
scholars that the Revolution stimulated a widening of expectations
and imaginative awareness: a belief, inherited from the
Enlightenment, in the possibility of progress, as well as a
conviction that state and society could be reconstituted with a view
to realizing social and individual aspirations and human happiness
generally. As it degenerated into violence and bloodshed, however,
the Revolution also provoked skepticism and pessimism about progress
and human nature. The two basic types of modern political outlook,
progressive and conservative, date from this experience. Which, if
any, of these sets of beliefs was true is not at issue here. What
matters is that the Revolution gave rise to them and gave them
lasting life
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The Origins of the French Revolution - The outbreak of the
French Revolution in the summer of 1789 stirred the imagination of
nearly all Europeans. The French revolutionaries - that is, those
men and women who made conscious choices - sensed in their hearts
and minds that they were witnessing the birth of a new age
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History of France - Trace France's fascinating history as an
emerging world power, from before the Roman Empire's expansion,
through the dynasties of the French monarchy, Revolution, Empire, to
the present-day Republic
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France
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History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
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History of FRANCE - including Cave-dwellers, Neolithic villages,
Arrival of the Celts, Marseilles and the Romans, Caesar's years in
Gaul, The Gallic War, Roman Gaul
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