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3 days ago · More liberal than his brothers, Provence was no friend to reform before 1789. He left the country in June 1791, establishing a royalist center at Coblentz. He fomented conspiracies in and outside of France against the revolutionary government and slowly gathered a military force of émigrés.
4 days ago · The fall of finance minister Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot in 1776 must be attributed to the hostility of chief royal adviser Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, and to the differences that arose between Turgot and foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, over French participation in the American Revolution rather than to ...
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- Marie-Antoinette was queen of France from 1774 to 1793 and is associated with the decline of the French monarchy. Her alleged remark “Let them eat...
- Marie-Antoinette was the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa. She was only 14 when her parents had her married...
- As queen, Marie-Antoinette was always unpopular. She spent lavishly, but her extravagance was only a minor cause of France’s growing debt in the 17...
- Marie-Antoinette was the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa and was married to Louis XVI. Though the first sev...
- Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 after the Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against the state. The royal family had been c...
2 days ago · UK and US monthly inflation rates from January 1989 [1][2] In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. This is usually measured using a consumer price index (CPI). [3][4][5][6] When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation ...
3 days ago · Jean Philippe, Count of Mérode and Marquis de Westerloo: 1674: 1732 Christopher Leopold, Count of Schaffgotsch: 1623: 1703 Francis Joseph, Count (later Prince) of Lamberg: 1637: 1712 Hans Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein: 1656: 1712 Jean Chrétien, Duke of Cromau and Prince of Eggenberg: 1641: 1710 Otto Honorius, Count of Abensperg-Traun: 1644: ...
5 days ago · The Battle of Thermopylae (/ θərˈmɒpɪliː / thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the se...
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5 days ago · The skull of St. Jean de Brébeuf, packed in a Volkswagen manned by three Jesuit priests, is slowly making its way across the U.S. Father de Brébeuf, a Jesuit priest who evangelized the native Huron people in modern-day Ontario, was martyred by the Iroquois in 1649. Now, 375 years later, his missionary work continues through the tour of his ...
