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French Revolution Fashion

Question: please help, fashion and the french revolution?

im during a progject and I need to find photos and descriptions of fashion.

but it has to be fashion before, during and after the french revolution.

pleasee help! (:

Answer: You might have better luck with books. here's one from amazon with pictures:

http://www.amazon.com/reader/0486243311?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib%5Fdp%5Fpt#reader

Also look online for portraits by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, who painted portraits of Marie Antoinette and others before and after the Revolution. The stiff dresses with hoops are from before, the loose white dresses worn with straw hats are from before, the straighter white and colored dresses with bizarre hats and hair are from after.

Check your library. Look online for costume departments at universities. Look at art collections online.

Pictures:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=dresses+french+revolution+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=OhywSpCaDpuetwfRvbDvCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1

Text:

http://www.oldandsold.com/articles08/costume-11.shtml

Good luck!
The French Revolution was 1789. Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804. Louis XVI and Marie antoinette ruled 1774-1793. this should help you look for the time periods.

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French Revolution General Assembly

Question: can someone please help me with this please?

Can someone help me with The following topics and events that must be covered to understanding of the French Revolution: I’m doing a presentation for students and I need help doing this.. I got most the answers but I can’t find these

Estates – General

Fall of the Bastille

National Assembly

Constitution of 1791

Committee of Public Safety & Robespierre

The Directory

Answer: go to google and put in the subject and all your answers with some reading will come up

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The First Candles

As early as 3,000 B.C. the Egyptians made torches by soaking the pithy core of reeds in molten tallow derived from animal fat. The Romans, who also used tallow, developed the first candles with wicks, which were used to guide travelers and light buildings.

The early Chinese molded candles in paper tubes and used rolled rice paper for the wick; they made the wax from a concoction of an indigenous insect and seeds. The Japanese made candles with wax extracted from tree nuts. In India early candle-makers boiled the fruit of the cinnamon tree for wax.

Candles in the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages candle makers began using beeswax, which honey bees secreted to build their honeycombs. The advantage of beeswax was that unlike tallow it burned cleanly-no smoky flame or acrid odor. Unfortunately, it was so expensive that only the wealthy could afford it.

By the 13th century, candle makers (or chandlers) in England and France sold tallow candles from their shops and traveled to homes, making candles from the fat the residents had saved.

Candles in the 18th Century

In Colonial America, women discovered that boiling bayberry leaves also produced a fragrant, clean-burning wax. But because the wax-producing process was so tedious, bayberry candles quickly lost popularity.

In the late 18th century, the booming whaling industry initiated the first revolution in candle making since the Middle Ages; Spermaceti-a wax produced by crystallizing sperm whale oil-also burned clean and smelled pleasant. Because it was harder than beeswax or tallow, it withstood the summer heat better.

Candles in the 19th Century

In the 1820s French chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul discovered how to extract stearic acid from animal fatty acids, leading to the development of stearin wax, which was hard, durable, and burned cleanly.

In 1834, Joseph Morgan invented a machine that allowed for the continuous production of molded candles, using a cylinder with a movable piston that ejected candles as they solidified. With the advent of mass production, most people could easily afford candles.

By 1850, paraffin wax-made from oil and coal shales-was in production. It burned cleanly, didn’t produce a repugnant odor, and was less expensive to produce than any preceding wax. Because it had a low melting point, stearic acid was used to make the candles more durable. By the end of the 19th century, most candles were being made from a paraffin wax-stearic acid combination.

Candles After the Light Bulb

After the light bulb was invented in 1879, people began to lose interest in candles, but the growth of the U.S. oil and meatpacking industries, which resulted in an increase of the byproducts used to create paraffin and stearic acid-the basic ingredients in candles-caused a revival of the candle’s popularity.

In the mid-1980s, the popularity of candles as decorative items and for mood setting began to rise. Manufacturers began producing candles in a wide variety of sizes and shapes and a multitude of scents.

Today candles are used in 7 out of 10 U.S. households, and U.S. annual sales, excluding candle accessories, are estimated at $2 billion.

David Kubicek received a B.A. with Distinction in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. As a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his work has been published in many periodicals, including Space and Time, National Lampoon, and The Writer’s Journal, and he was a writer for the Midlands Business Journal for nine years. His books include The Pelican in the Desert and Other Stories of the Family Farm, October Dreams: A Harvest of Horror, and the Cliffs Notes for Willa Cather’s My Antonia. David lives with his wife Cheryl, son Sean, two dogs and a cat in Lincoln, Nebraska. Visit his Website at http://www.davidkubicek.com.

French Revolution Estates

Question: Where the goals of each Estates achieved in the French Revolution?

What happened to the first and second estate? What did they want from it and did they get it?
Were the third estate ever seen as fully equal?
Who’s aims were best satisfied?

Thanks
xx

Answer: lol isn't it ur homework...
1st estate and 2 estate have privileges
3rd estate r like the working class basically
The French revolution's goal was to take out the nobles and ppl like that who are in the first 1st estate
They achieve this goal and the middle class people the "bourgeoises" took over the government...

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French Revolution Paris Mob

Question: FRENCH REVOLUTION!?!?

Louis XVI was made to accept the National Assembly’s laws beacuse
a. he went bankrupt
b. a mob of parisian people forced him to return to Paris
c. the army went against him and threatened to kill him

Answer: b

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