A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

426 Ch. 1 1 • Dynastic Rivalries and Politics Sultan Selim III in his palace in Istanbul, with a line of followers stretching in ...

Declining Power, Disappearing State: The Ottoman Empire and Poland 427 est tax farmers, engendered peasant resistance. As in the ...

428 Ch. 1 1 • Dynastic Rivalries and Politics Austrian Habsburg domination of Central Europe, Louis XV proposed a candidate for ...

Declining Power, Disappearing State: The Ottoman Empire and Poland 429 Map 11.3 The Partitions of Poland Poland at its greatest ...

430 Ch. 1 1 • Dynastic Rivalries and Politics chy, abolished the system of noble veto, and proclaimed that all authority stemmed ...

Declining Power, Disappearing State: The Ottoman Empire and Poland 431 placed further strains on European states. France entered ...

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Part Four Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850 The French Revolution of 1789 struck the first solid blow in continental Western Europ ...

434 Part 4 • Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850 the revolutionary era in France. An admirer of the Enlighten­ ment, Napoleon claime ...

CHAPTER 12 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION In 1791, King Louis XVI decided to flee Paris and the French Revolution. A virtual prisoner in ...

436 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution Modern nationalism, too, has its roots in the French Revolution. The rev­ olutionaries enthus ...

The Old Regime in Crisis 437 began to contrast the freedoms Turgot had in mind with the corporate privi­ leges that characterize ...

438 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution gathering wood for fuel. Many landlords raised rents and tried to force share­ cropping arran ...

The Old Regime in Crisis^439 (Left) Louis XVI. (Right) Marie-Antoinette. cake!” when told that the people had no bread). The dau ...

440 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution To sidestep the parlements, Calonne asked the king in February 1787 to convoke an Assembly of ...

The First Stages of the Revolution 441 dilemma would lead to the events that constituted the first stages of the French Revoluti ...

442 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution But the convocation of the Estates-General helped unify public opinion against the king. That ...

The First Stages of the Revolution^443 (Left) The Marquis de Lafayette. (Right) The Abbe Sieves. and monastic orders. Some of th ...

444 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution true representative of national sovereignty. The third estate now claimed legitimate sovereig ...

The First Stages of the Revolution 445 Louis XVI had dismissed Necker on June 22, but reversed himself after learning that thous ...