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by toritto
The National Assembly had written a constitution for France and, after two years, considered its work at an end. It was for others to impl..
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The Estates General, which declared itself the National Assembly began work on a Constitution for France while still in Versailles and before its mo..
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Tuileries Palace
With the ruling by Louis XVI that the three classes should meet as one body the National Assembly convened. Months had gone by sin..
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For Bastille Day
King Louis XVI
It was the middle of the 1780s and the King of France was broke.
Extravagant levels of spending by the monarchy and..
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Bastille Day is approaching and I will be posting a series on the French Revolution, which changed the history of Europe.
The Queen’s Chamber a..
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Christopher Street, for those of you unfamiliar, is a street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Back in the sixties number 51/53 was a bit of a rundow..
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Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in France. Short and bandy legged. A man who needed a cane and had a bad heart; 57 years old and looking o..
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It was the Summer of 1967 and I was in the Army. My four years of service would be up on November 17, 1967.
I had been loading up flat bed rail c..
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Mulberry Street -Little Italy -"
“Italians are just a little worse than the negro, being if anything, filthier in their habits , lawless and ..
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Tsar Nicholas II in captivity shoveling snow - 1917
The Russian Revolution broke out on March 8, 1917 in Pe..
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