The peasants were angry about a range of issues, such as low pay and the introduction of a poll tax. They demanded changes were made. The revolt did not achieve all of the peasants’ aims and the ...

Marie Antoinette was heavily disliked by many of the French people ... These initial steps towards revolution were taken by members of the bourgeoise, not the peasants. The delegates were upper ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

Nevertheless, the French colonial regime continued to lose group to the revolutionary Viet Minh from 1946 to 1954. Once more, a popular revolution, based on peasant discontent, broke out.

This move alarmed the British and the French, especially as the two men attempted to calm sentiments of revolt in the country ... it was cut in size, and peasants were banned from holding any ...