France in The Long Nineteenth Century

The History of France from 1789 to 1914 (the long 19th century) extends from the French Revolution to World War I and includes:

  • French Revolution (1789–1792)
  • French First Republic (1792–1804)
  • First French Empire under Napoleon I (1804–1814/1815)
  • Bourbon Restoration under Louis XVIII and Charles X (1814/1815–1830)
  • July Monarchy under Louis Philippe d'Orléans (1830–1848)
  • Second Republic (1848–1852)
  • Second Empire under Napoleon III (1852–1870)
  • Long Depression (1873-1890)
  • Belle Époque (1890-1914)

Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, france, long, nineteenth and/or century:

    If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.
    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five years ago American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered; we failed them, we failed them then, we cannot fail them again and expect the world to survive again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake ... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules.
    Joan Didion (b. 1934)

    Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:
    Those who are free from anger are free from death.
    Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)