French Revolution
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Coverture
A legal doctrine under which married women lose their individual identity and are "covered" by their husbands, who have legal rights over their wives.
Marie Antoinette
Wife of Louis XVI and queen of France known for opulence, infidelity, and indifference to the sufferings of the people.
Estates General
Consultative body created during the late medieval period represented the three estates: clergy, nobility, and commoners.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778) One of the most prominent French Enlightenment thinkers and author of 'Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men' (1754) and 'The Social Contract' (1762).
General Will
A concept from Rousseau that he never clearly defines but declares to be always right and completely sovereign over individuals (who, nonetheless, are completely free under such a state).
French Revolution
Uprising against the French monarchy leads to abolition of monarchy, various social, political changes, and eventual establishment of dictatorship by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon Bonaparte
French general partially responsible for the French victories in the coalitions against France that went on to become first consul and eventually emperor.