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 and/or nineteenth:
“In the nineteenth century ... explanations of who and what women were focused primarily on reproductive events—marriage, children, the empty nest, menopause. You could explain what was happening in a woman’s life, it was believed, if you knew where she was in this reproductive cycle.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)