DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF MIRABEAU AND ABBESIYES IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? ?????
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Mirabeau, (Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau), was born in Bignon near Nemours on 9th March 1749. When he was three years old Mirabeau was lucky to survive a virulent attack of smallpox but was also unfortunate in that it left him with a badly pock-marked face.
Mirabeau was educated at a military school in Paris subsequently entering a cavalry regiment. He was, however, inclined to get into amorous scrapes and was even imprisoned, at the request of his own father, because of such adventures. In this times it was possible for aristocrats to apply forLettres de Cachet under the authority of which a person who had incurred an aristocrat's displeasure could expect to be confined. In 1772 Mirabeau married an heiress but his subsequent continued extravagance led his father to arrange a period of exile in the country for his spendthrift son.
There were further amorous scrapes and further terms of imprisonment at the request of Mirabeau senior. Before long Mirabeau met a young woman with whom he had a deeply felt affaire prompting him and her to seek exile in Switzerland and in Holland. This effective desertion of his wife, and adulterous affaire, left Mirabeau open to very serious charges and he was even sentenced to death.
In May 1777 Mirabeau was arrested and, whilst in confinement, spent some of his time in literary and philosophical pursuits. After his release in August 1782 Mirabeau managed to get the sentence of death overturned but continued to get into amorous, and other, scrapes that brought with them the practical necessity of a period of exile. Mirabeau's places of exile in these times included Holland and England (where he became involved in literary and political circles).
On June 17th, 1789, Mirabeau together with the Abbé Sieyès, led a move where the Third Estate delegates to the Estates General withdrew and sought to instead compose themselves as the National Assembly of France.
In the early days of its efforts to convene as a National Assembly a situation arose where the would-be Assembly believed that it had been deliberately locked out of its adopted meeting place (the Hotel des Menus) on the King's authority. Mirabeau led the delegates to a near-by Tennis Court where he participated prominently in the drafting of the so-called Tennis Court Oath whereby the Assembly refused to disband before the framing of a constitution for the governance of France.
On June 23rd, when advised of the displeasure of King Louis XVI with the turn of events, Mirabeau replied, "If you have orders to remove us from this hall, you must also get authority to use force, for we shall yield to nothing but to bayonets." The King on hearing this declined to use force and eventually supported the Aristocratic and Clerical Estates' joining in the proceedings of a National Assembly.
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Mirabeau was educated at a military school in Paris subsequently entering a cavalry regiment. He was, however, inclined to get into amorous scrapes and was even imprisoned, at the request of his own father, because of such adventures. In this times it was possible for aristocrats to apply forLettres de Cachet under the authority of which a person who had incurred an aristocrat's displeasure could expect to be confined. In 1772 Mirabeau married an heiress but his subsequent continued extravagance led his father to arrange a period of exile in the country for his spendthrift son.
There were further amorous scrapes and further terms of imprisonment at the request of Mirabeau senior. Before long Mirabeau met a young woman with whom he had a deeply felt affaire prompting him and her to seek exile in Switzerland and in Holland. This effective desertion of his wife, and adulterous affaire, left Mirabeau open to very serious charges and he was even sentenced to death.
In May 1777 Mirabeau was arrested and, whilst in confinement, spent some of his time in literary and philosophical pursuits. After his release in August 1782 Mirabeau managed to get the sentence of death overturned but continued to get into amorous, and other, scrapes that brought with them the practical necessity of a period of exile. Mirabeau's places of exile in these times included Holland and England (where he became involved in literary and political circles).
On June 17th, 1789, Mirabeau together with the Abbé Sieyès, led a move where the Third Estate delegates to the Estates General withdrew and sought to instead compose themselves as the National Assembly of France.
In the early days of its efforts to convene as a National Assembly a situation arose where the would-be Assembly believed that it had been deliberately locked out of its adopted meeting place (the Hotel des Menus) on the King's authority. Mirabeau led the delegates to a near-by Tennis Court where he participated prominently in the drafting of the so-called Tennis Court Oath whereby the Assembly refused to disband before the framing of a constitution for the governance of France.
On June 23rd, when advised of the displeasure of King Louis XVI with the turn of events, Mirabeau replied, "If you have orders to remove us from this hall, you must also get authority to use force, for we shall yield to nothing but to bayonets." The King on hearing this declined to use force and eventually supported the Aristocratic and Clerical Estates' joining in the proceedings of a National Assembly.
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