French Revolution
Speech parts
1. French Revolution - Noun
2. French Revolution - Proper noun
Meaning
the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789-1799
Source: WordNetExamples
After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), feudalism fell away and liberalism and nationalism clashed with reaction.
Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors.
An artisanal metalworker, Barthélemy was a radical republican inspired by memories of barely a couple of decades ago when the ordinary labouring people of Paris had once "stormed heaven" in the era-defining French Revolution.
Alternatively, Louis's critics attribute the social upheaval culminating in the French Revolution to his failure to reform French institutions while the monarchy was still secure.
A rebellion in 1798 led by the cross-community Belfast-based Society of the United Irishmen and inspired by the French Revolution sought to break the constitutional ties between Ireland and Britain and unite Irish people of all religions.
After the French Revolution it was popular for its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting.