confining them to the Tuileries palace in Paris.īritish liberals applauded the revolutionist's proclamation of natural rights and equality. Six weeks after in early October citizens marched to the royal palace of Versailles and arrested A month later the new National Assembly passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Prisoners by an angry mob of Parisians on July 14, 1789. Of radical transformation The revolution began with the storming of the Bastille and freeing of a handful of political Under Napoleon - many authors held fast, despite a pervasive disenchantment to their dreams The massacres during the Reign of Terror under Robespierre, the wars of imperial conquest The failure of the revolutionary promise was signaled by the executions of the king and queen. Violence would ultimately usher in an era of universal peace in which the world will begin anew. guaranteed by an infallible text, that a short period of interpreting the Revolution as fulfilling the promise. Many tried to make sense of events in terms borrowed from the Bible. English literature, 'has arisen as it were from a new birth. because of the repercussions of the Revolution. The closing sentence of his 'Defense of Poetry' asset. The Revolution Controversy and the 'Spirit of the Age' Percy Shelly in 1816 in a letter to Byron called the French Revolution 'the master theme of the
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