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 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)