Was it a time of chaos? Stability?
Conservative Bonapartistes are super popular but I don't want the French Empire. Is it possible to keep the republic after Napoleon III gets elected, to depose him or something?
A few details I remember:
- Three members in the family:
Mother: Lead role, think she was played by a famous French actress
Father: Recall something about him abandoning the family in the beginning? Not sure
Son: He's in his early 20s, recall him being lazy; e.g. sleeping through the day
- They run a small farm
- The family (mainly the Mother) refuses to be evacuated by the French army
- Think the Father and Son are killed by rebels towards the end of the film. The farm also might get taken over
Haven't actually seen the movie, but I remember reading it won some award. What I've got is from a plot summary and a few scenes I remember.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I don't hate the French, and I know many people, including my Father, who have all been to the French Republic.
I've recently been learning about the revolutions of 1848, but my source (Mike Duncan's Revolution podcast mostly) doesn't go much into the conquest of French Algeria after the initial invasion. I was wondering how the creation of a republic may have changed attitudes about the conquest, in France of Algeria.
B-b-bUt tHeY hAd f-fReEDom.
Nope. Even the slightest suggestion that you weren't 100 percent happy with the revolution almost guaranteed you a trip to the guillotine. It's a common myth that clergy and nobles were the only victims.
B-b-bUt tHEy s-SpOke fOr tHe o-opPreSsEd peAsanTRy
Wrong again. The revolution only spoke for a small percentage of specifically Parisian lower/middle class people. Outside of Paris the revolution was FAR from popular. There were counter revolutions to restore the monarchy (some of which lasted until 1800s) Even among the Paris revolution moderates were the dominant ideology until the radicals fear mongering and death threats convinced them to go along with them.
tHeY wERe aTtAcKEd bY eUrOPe fIRsT
The exact opposite. The "Republic" immediately declared war on Austria, and the rest of Europe seeing France as the loose cannon dumpster fire it had become joined in. The Republic was the aggressor against the rest of Europe, conscripted the masses (many of whom did not support them) withheld pay and supplies from the soldiers they expected to die for them and paved the way for Napoleon (a more authoritarian figure than the king ever was) to take power.
Fuck the First French "Republic"
For some context, I translated into English (thanks to deepl) the resolution voted by the French Senate on NKR (the national assembly voted something similar, a little bit less explicit). This is a resolution, not a law: this is an official declaration on which the Senate tells its position on a matter, that does not compel the government. It has been voted unanimously (minus 1 vote) on the 25th of November 2020.
The Senate in France is known to be always moderate (some say watered-down) in its positions. Such a strong resolution is quite exceptional in its contents.
http://www.senat.fr/tableau-historique/ppr20-145.html
The Senate,
Having regard to Article 34-1 of the [1958 French] Constitution,
Having regard to the North Atlantic Treaty of April 4, 1949
Having regard to the ceasefire agreement of May 12, 1994,
Having regard to the ceasefire agreement of 9 November 2020,
Considering that the Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has multiplied in recent years, provocations, intimidations and threats against France, Europe or other countries;
Considering that the expansionist policy conducted by Turkey is a major factor of destabilization in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near and Middle East, and now in the South Caucasus; considering that such destabilization constitutes a threat to the security of France and Europe as a whole;
Considering that the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is taking place on the borders of two particularly unstable regions of the world, the Caucasus and the Middle East, and that it also entails a risk of escalation potentially involving regional powers;
Considering that Turkey's military support for Azerbaijan is at the root of the aggression against the population of Nagorno-Karabakh that began on September 27, 2020; considering furthermore that Turkey has deployed mercenaries who have served in jihadist groups in Syria to the theater of operations as auxiliaries to the Azeri army;
Considering that the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, while under Azeri administration, was repeatedly subjected to organized massacres, in particular in Sumgait (25-27 February 1988), Kirovabad (23 November 1988), Baku (12-19 January 1990) and Maragha (10 April 1992);
Considering that the reports of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (ECRI) and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations (CERD) attest to the impossibility of the Armenian population to l
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