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What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This document, which was passed by the National Assembly in 1789, reflected the notion that rights came with being born human, but women and slaves were not included
100
What is nationalism?
This is a conscious bond shared by a group of people who feel strongly attached to a particular land and who possess a common language, culture, and history marked by shared glories and sufferings
100
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This important artifact, which was plundered by the French during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, is the most-visited object at the British Museum
100
What is the Third Republic?
Despite the contradictions inherent in being a republican empire, it was under this regime that France had the largest empire in the nation's history
100
What is 1968?
In this year, French students took to the streets to protest, among other things, the rigidities and inadequacies of the educational system they were in
200
What is Les Misérables?
Romantic author Victor Hugo was inspired by an uprising in 1832, under the reign of Louis Philippe, to write this novel
200
What is socialism?
This is a political and economic theory which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
200
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This former slave led a successful slave revolt in Saint-Dominuge inspired by revolutionary ideals
200
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
At this meeting of Allied leaders in 1919, French demands for security and revenge ran counter to Wilson’s principles of self-determination and “peace without victory”
200
What is 1848?
This year is called the “Year of Revolutions” because a wave of revolutions broke out in Europe in response to the French uprising against Louis Philippe
300
What is the Estates General?
This assembly was called by Louis XVI in 1789 to help him raise taxes. It was made up of representatives of the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else
300
What is romanticism?
This intellectual movement emphasized emotion over reason and emerged in the German states as a form of resistance to the Napoleonic occupation
300
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This Vietnamese revolutionary founded the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929, wrote the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam, and helped defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954
300
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was an American plan to stimulate European recovery that offered economic aid to all nations still recovering from the war
300
What is 1889?
In this year, Gustave Eiffel introduced his tower, which some saw as the ultimate symbol of modernity and others found shocking
400
What are the June Days?
This is a period of the 1848 Revolution in France during which workers protested the closing of social workshops by building barricades and the Second Republic’s troops repressed the uprising, killing thousands
400
What is fascism?
This is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, which emerged in Europe during the interwar period
400
What are the pieds-noirs?
This nickname was given to European settlers, who came from Spain, Italy, Malta, and France, in Algeria
400
What is orientalism?
This cultural movement is defined by interest in and attraction to the cultures of the east
400
What is 1900?
In this year, Paris opened its Metro for the first time as part of a World’s Fair.
500
What are les petroleuses?
According to rumors that circulated during the fall of the Paris Commune, these were savage women arsonists who used bottles filled with gas to ignite buildings
500
What is realism?
This artistic movement, which was exemplified by the works of Gustave Courbet and Gustave Flaubert, was defined by an attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements
500
What is the Berlin Conference?
In 1884, European colonial powers met here to lay ground rules for the partition of Africa
500
What is the Colonial Exposition of 1931?
This event, which celebrated France’s empire, produced the building that now houses France’s musée de l’immigration
500
What is 1905?
In this year, the French government passed a law formally separating Church and State, which was seen as a response to the crisis caused by the Dreyfus Affair






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