...old. By the time he was 17, Napoleon was a second lieutenant in the French Army. Napoleon continued to rise to power while the French Revolution began to rage in 1789. The French Revolution also allowed Napoleon to rapidly gain power and high ranking. One of Napoleon’s biggest moves was the coup d'état led in 1799. In this, Napoleon seized power in France and eventually declared himself emperor in 1804. Napoleon’s military and political success was made possible by the French Revolution. As it was such a turbulent time in history, it allowed for Napoleon...
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...RAPPORT ETABLI PAR DES MAGISTRATS FRANÇAIS A L’ISSUE D’UN VOYAGE D’ETUDE (du 19 au 29 juin 2007) SUR L’APPLICATION DE CETTE LEGISLATION Voyage organisé conjointement par le Ministère de la Justice du Royaume du Maroc et l’Ambassade de France, avec le concours de l’Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature. composition du groupe : - Joseph Taillefer, président de chambre à la Cour d’Appel de Rennes, - Jean-Paul Eichler, président de chambre à la Cour d’Appel de Colmar, - Marie-Christine Leroy, conseillère à la Cour d’Appel d’Aix en Provence, - Dominique Nolet, conseillère à la Cour d’Appel de Pau, - Martine Escolano, première vice-président du tribunal de grande instance de Nancy - Dominique Avon, conseillère à la Cour d’Appel de Montpellier, - Alfred Birgert, vice-président du tribunal de grande instance de Nancy, - Chantal Giraud, vice-présidente du tribunal de grande instance de Besançon, - Michel Blanc, président du tribunal de grande instance de Blois, - Dominique Martin Saint Léon, président du tribunal de grande instance de Bonneville. INTRODUCTION Le nouveau Code de la Famille marocain est entré en vigueur le 5 février 2004. Selon la convention bilatérale du 10 août 1981 relative au droit de la famille, il est applicable aux marocains résidant en France, devant les juridictions françaises. Il s'agit d'une oeuvre considérable, qui englobe tous les aspects du Droit des personnes: le mariage, la filiation, la capacité, les testaments et les successions. Il a été élaboré, sous l'impulsion...
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...“Divorce” Taking from the first legalized divorce to the till date, the number of divorcees have flooded. Divorce is the legal separation of husband and wife from each other and living on their own. The first legal divorce was found to be done in the date of Jan 5, 1643 in American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From the many studies on divorce, it has shown some results on the cause, effects and the advantages and disadvantages of divorce. From the study of the divorce rate in the world the top ten most divorced countries are 1) Belgium (71%) 2) Portugal (68%) 3) Hungary (67%) 4) Czech Republic (66%) 5) Spain (61%) 6) Luxembourg (60%) 7) Estonia (58%) 8) Cuba (56%) 9) France (55%) and 10) USA (53%). The lowest divorced rate is in Chile with an average of 4% divorce rate. These are the divorced average rate in European countries where love marriages are in practice but with the study of data the rate of divorce in arrange marriage is found significantly low than love marriages, with an average of 4% divorce rate. This data is almost similar to the lowest rate of divorce in the world (i.e. Chile). Nowadays most of the nation has legalized the divorce. Some of the countries with declared law for divorce and the date for their legalization are; US- 1701 (Maryland State) – 1949-50 (South Carolina State) – 1970 (Alabama State), Spain- 1981, Soviet Union- 1917-1926, Scotland- 1976, Scandinavia-1909-1929, Prussia -1794, Ireland- 1997, German States- 1875, France-...
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...on July 1, 1961 in Sandringham, United Kingdom. Born Diana Frances Spencer, the princess grew up in Northamptonshire with her three siblings, Sarah, Jane, and her younger brother, Charles. Princess Diana married Prince Charles of Wales at the age of 22, becoming the Princess of Wales. She tragically died in a car accident while trying to escape the media on August 30, 1997, in Paris, France. Even after her death, Princess Diana continues to impact lives today. She now has a granddaughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, named after her. Many people consider Princess Diana to be a hero. However, she can also be considered an epic hero. Princess Diana was an epic hero because throughout her life she...
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...her, see Lady Di (EastEnders). Diana | Princess of Wales; Duchess of Rothesay(more) | The Princess of Wales in 1995 | Spouse | Charles, Prince of Wales (m. 1981; div. 1996)[1] | Issue | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Prince Henry of Wales | Full name | Diana Frances[fn 1] | | House | House of Windsor (by marriage) Spencer family (by birth) | Father | John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer | Mother | Frances Shand Kydd | Born | Lady Diana Spencer 1 July 1961 Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk,England | Died | 31 August 1997 (aged 36) Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris,France | Burial | 6 September 1997 Althorp, Northamptonshire | Religion | Church of England | Signature | | Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances;[fn 1] née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.[2] Diana was born into an aristocratic British family with royal ancestry as The Honourable Diana Frances Spencer. She was the fourth child of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and the Honourable Frances Ruth Roche, the daughter of British aristocrat the 4th Baron Fermoy. After her parents' divorce, she was raised in Park House, which was situated near to the Sandringham estate, and was educated in England and Switzerland. Diana became Lady Diana Spencer after her father later inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975. She became a public figure with the announcement of her...
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...the French Revolution The French Revolution was one of the notable events that played an important part in France’s history. Women, common men, clergy, and nobles took drastic steps to secure freedom for a country that was financially ruined. Liberty During the French Revolution, classes of people were fighting for liberty. Surprisingly enough, woman’s participation played a vital role of the French Revolution; they participated in political, social, and military roles (Grout, 2009). For example, the march of French women participated in the French Revolution due to the promise of universal rights, which were never fulfilled. The French Revolution caused France to institute divorce into their legislation in 1792 giving women the right to a divorce. The legislation was revoked under the Restoration when France returned to orthodoxy in 1816 (Commaille, 1983). The revolutionaries claimed that liberty was an inalienable right, especially because the American colonist defeated the British in the War of Independence. On October 5, 1789 six thousand Parisian women marched on toward Versailles forcing the King to make decisions on problems with the bread supply, high prices, and starvation (Geary, Kishlansky, & O’Brien 2010). Equality and Democracy The French citizens not only wanted liberty, but they also wanted equality. The French people were willing to give up their political liberty to gain equality. The old regime equality consisted only for the First Estate...
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...Frances Wright was born September 6, 1795 in Dundee, Scotland. After her parents died when she was two years old, Wright spent her childhood with a succession of relatives in Scotland. Living with her uncle, a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow College, Wright explored the college's libraries and became especially intrigued by the few books on offer about the newly independent United States of America. A two-year tour of the United States with her sister provided Frances Wright with the material for her Views of Society and Manners in America, published in 1821, an enthusiastic account of Americans' patriotic idealism and the different attitudes that the new Americans had in terms of manners and general values in comparison to the British. Though this work was not the entirely feminist work that Wright would later become known for, it did put her into the public view. Wright later formulated a plan to immigrate to the United States and create a southern settlement on which slaves could work to earn profits toward their eventual emancipation. Frances Wright purchased a tract in Tennessee called Nashoba and recruited slaves and abolitionists to join her. Though the farm never produced enough to achieve her initial goal, a result that was not unprecedented as Wright had little to no experience running a farm on her own. When Wright made a brief journey back to England, Nashoba and the politics surrounding it provoked a national scandal after its remaining settlers proclaimed...
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...15 years ago, Westminster Abbey was surrounded by millions of people, whom were praying for her. Flowers fully covered 77 miles’ road to let her coffin pass through. Even after she dead 10 years, thousands of people still coming to Wembley Stadium to commemorate her. And her name was Diana Spencer, the legendary princess of Wales. Although her death haves been pass 15 years, nobody has forgot that beautiful prince that wore Cartier crown, Valentino dress and who were caring about the populace. Diana Frances was born in 1st of July, 1961, in Sandringham, east of England. She was the youngest child of her family, her brith made her father disappointed, because he have two daughter already, in family’s tradition, he can only pass his title and properties to his son. In 1967, Diana’s parents’ relationship was broken due to her mother’s disloyalty. So she had to look after her younger brother. When she was 9 years old, she had been forced to go to a private girls’ school (Riddles-worth Hall). She was very sad, and she was begging her father to let her stay with her brother, but her father rejected her. After a few years she had many friends in the school, although she was popular, she was not good at study, her grades were not so good. In 1975 her family moved to Althorp, and she became Lady Diana Spencer (Spencer was her family name before she married), and her younger brother became Lord Spencer. When she was 18 years old, she started to work. Diana and Charles was...
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...Cultural Analysis History of France While the typical example of a nation-state, France carries a varied and culturally rich historical identity spawning from its centuries of growth. France’s birth as a nation, though difficult to date, seems to center around the conversion to Christianity by King Clovis in 496 A.D. following through to the later part of the century with the coronation of Hugh Carpet in 987. The Carpetian dynasty, which reigned for almost 900 years, came to an end in 1789 with the declaration of France as a nation by the people and the French revolution. In 843 A.D., the Treaty of Verdun roughly divided most of what is now Western Europe into the three territories of France, Germany, and Italy which was given to the 3 grandsons of Charlemagne. The three territories were ruled primarily in peace, France by Phillip Valois, until 1338 and the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War. Through the war, France won provinces that had been held by the Plantagenet king of England. Protestantism spread rapidly throughout the 16th century coinciding with civil wars throughout the nation due to religious differences. The king, Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes granting religious freedom to the French Protestants, Huguenots, bringing an end to the religiously prompted civil wars. The centuries that followed, marked with territorial squabbles, diverse styles of ruling, and growth throughout the country, paled in comparison to the reign of Louis XIV. Monarchy had...
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...I) What is the family? To study the evolution of the family in the last century, we must first define what a family is and what forms it can take. The family is a fundamental building block of life in society in the sense that it allows a large part of social reproduction. It is often the first group in which individuals are socialized and learn to live in society: sociolisation primaire.On can define the family in different ways and different points of view . A family , for example, a community of people united by kinship . It has a legal personality, a name, a home and a common heritage and created among its members a duty of moral and material solidarity , intended to protect and promote their social, physical and emotional . The family can take many forms. There may be nuclear families , which are a form of family structure corresponding to a household comprising two or unmarried children and their parents, in contrast to the extended family may have several generations The parent families, which are families consisting of one parent living with her children and stepfamilies , household combining two families whose parents are either divorced or separated , and being remarried or is not living in the same household . II) Some definitions: Marriage : today , marriage can take two main forms : the civil marriage (which was doing the town hall) , and religious marriage (which is the church) often requires a prior civil marriage. The wedding is a ceremony aimed...
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...country of France. This period was called the French Revolution. At this time, the country of France went from being a monarchy which was ruled by King Louis XVI, who was king of France from 1744 until his removal in the year 1792 (Furet 1995), to a republic ruled by the people and then a full dictatorship. Soon after, the role of ruler came to Napoleon Bonaparte who was the military general and first emperor of the country of France (History.com Staff 2009). Napoleon was born on the date of August 15, 1769 in Corsica, France and died on May 5, 1821 on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean (History.com Staff 2009). During his reign, Napoleon promised the people of France that their revolution would be honored, but rather ruled the way he wanted which provided mixed opinions on whether he destroyed or upheld the French Revolutions. This paper will argue about the parts of the French revolution affected by Napoleon Bonaparte, whether positively or negatively, and which of them he preserved and which did he destroy, keeping in mind the motto liberty, equality and fraternity as well as the three estates, the clergy, the nobility and everyone else. To begin with, Napoleon was a very popular figure in France because of his military ideas and talents. Napoleon only lost three out of all fourteen wars he took part in during his lifetime. He had strong military tactics that aided him in the defeat of Austria (Furet 1995). This quickly hooked the citizens of France as well...
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...The Role of Women in the French Revolution Sarah A.Butt Western Civilization 3rd March 2010 The French revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of hatred and blood. It was a period of political upheaval of the country, and of world importance in France. Issues of rights and equality has always been a heated debate in the world, however, during the French Revolution, equality was the main exhilarating and impassioned concept that was put into matter and effect. The French Revolution, was the period of revolutionaries revolting for liberty and equality, failed to provide equals rights as French men for the French women. Even though, women played a significant role during the French Revolution, they however did not get the respect in their society, neither were they treated equally as men. In spite of their vibrant contribution throughout the Revolution, their involvements always proved contentious. The eighteen century was a period of revolutionaries, and feministic activities. One of the main causes of the further turmoil in France was the Austrian wife of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette. In the beginning, Marie Antoinette was loved by the commoners, as she would always help them when they would get accidentally shot by Louis XVI during his hunting. However, after when Antoinette’s frivolous spending habits started to arose, people were extremely infuriated. She would squander their taxes and hard work on gambling, and wearing the most fashionable clothes, subsequently...
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...Through pushing away from the feminine and seeing marriage as a trap, Frederica and women can continue her journey and her education through traveling and moving through her hardships and finding success within herself. In Still Life, the heroine Frederica learns that she will be going to college at the University of Cambridge and traveling to France before the start her semester. While this is a continuation of the rejection of the feminine, it is also the beginning of hardships. Hardships according to Murdock the part of the journey that the heroine realizes that it is not easy to become equal in societies eyes. She will constantly battle the stereotypes of females and with each success she becomes stronger in her own character. As she...
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...Assess the reasons behind Wolsey's fall From the beginning of Henry VIII reign to 1529, Cardinal Wolsey was a influential figure and Henry's key advisor. However by 1529 Wolsey had been charged with praemunire and was due to be executed in November 1530. The most important reason for this was because of Wolsey's failure to obtain a divorce between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. The main reason behind Wolsey's fall was his failure to obtain a divorce between Catherine of Argon and Henry VIII. Henry's desire to end his marriage began in 1527 in which Wolsey promised would be a quick and easy problem to resolve due to his influence with the pope. However after two years of waiting Henry became desperate for a divorce. Wolsey made three attempts to obtain divorce: the first was to try and get the current pope to admit that the previous pope was in the wrong, the second attempt was on technical grounds that there was an error in dispensation, and the third was to get the case heard in England in which Wolsey would play a big role in the verdict. However by the failure of the third attempt Henry accused Wolsey of upholding papal law without the Kings permission and charged him with praemunire on the 9th October 1529. By the 29th November Wolsey was due to be executed, but died on the journey to London. This was the most important reasons for Wolsey's fall as in the space of one year Wolsey had lost all influence and power and also Henry's trust. Resulting in him being sentenced...
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...France Oct 20, 2014 Introduction France is a modern European state and a republic, the capital of France is Paris, and is one of the world’s top five economies. The French head of state is the President, elected by universal suffrage (2012 elections): the president governs through a Council of Ministers and a parliament made up of two chambers, the National Assembly (lower house) and the Senate (upper house). In addition, the political system in France called (Republique). Metropolitan France (France in Europe) has a population of slightly over 62 million, a little more than that of the United Kingdom. France takes an area around 550 000 km². France official language is (French), and official currency is (Euros €). The flag - the tricolore - consists of three vertical bands of equal width, displaying the country's national colors: blue, white and red. Red, white and blue have come to represent liberty, equality and fraternity - the ideals of the French Revolution. Blue and red are also the time-honored color of Paris, while white is the color of the Royal House of Bourbon. France famous of Eiffel Tower and many other great sights .France is the largest country in the EU, stretching from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The landscape is diverse, with mountains in the east and south, including the Alpine peak of Mont Blanc (4 810 m) which is Western Europe's highest point. Lowland France consists of four river basins, the Seine in the north, the Loire...
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