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'The red wall is cracking': Buttigieg gets ovation after expecting protests | US news |... - 0 views

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  • “What you need to realize with Sioux county is there’s a very strong religious flavor there, from their courts to their public squares,” said Ned Bjornstad, a former elected prosecutor in north-west Iowa turned veteran defense attorney who practices regularly in Orange City. “For a candidate like Buttigieg, I’d expect protesters.”
  • “Iowans long for someone who understands them,” Harms said. “The second you meet him, you get that impression that he almost knows you. Of course he can come into Orange City, and people will like him. There’s that common bond among midwesterners.”
  • “In the last 50 years, every Democratic president has a perspective outside Washington, is new on the national scene, and is of a new generation,” he said. “I check all those boxes.”
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  • “I can’t think of anyone more anathema to the seat of Sioux county, but a packed house there suggests there’s broad appeal, for whatever reason,” Best said.
  • Corrie Hayes, a 21-year-old senior at Northwestern College, said she was impressed particularly with his response to a question about abortion rights, when he said that in the Book of Genesis, life begins with breath. She wouldn’t get into her positions on policy – she said she was deeply religious and her faith guided her every day – but she said she could tell Buttigieg was sincere about his faith.
  • More people than ever before are reading and supporting our journalism, in more than 180 countries around the world. And this is only possible because we made a different choice: to keep our reporting open for all, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay.
  • None of this would have been attainable without our readers’ generosity – your financial support has meant we can keep investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has protected our independence, which has never been so critical. We are so grateful.
  • Pete Buttigieg knew he was foraying into unfriendly confines when he was en route to Orange City, the seat of Iowa’s most conservative county.
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Trump legal team calls impeachment 'brazen' attempt to overturn 2016 election | US news... - 0 views

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  • In a joint statement, the seven managers led by the Democratic intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff said their case was “simple, the facts are indisputable, and the evidence is overwhelming: President Trump abused the power of his office to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal political gain, thereby jeopardising our national security, the integrity of our elections, and our democracy”.
  • The case hinges on a 25 July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in which Trump asked his counterpart to do him a “favour” and investigate both a conspiracy theory concerning election interference and ties between former vice-president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, and the eastern European country.
  • Many observers suggest the slow nature of the trial will prove a turnoff to the American public, boosting Trump’s hopes of surviving unscathed. Others report that the president wants to add fire and TV knowhow to the team mounting his defence.
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  • The documents also raised more questions about the security of Marie Yovanovitch, a former ambassador to Ukraine who testified in House impeachment proceedings. An unidentified individual with a Belgian country code appeared to describe Yovanovitch’s movements.
  • Trump seems certain to survive the Senate trial, as a two-thirds majority will be needed to convict and remove him and Republicans remain in line behind him.
  • In their statement on Saturday, the House impeachment managers said senators “must accept and fulfil the responsibility placed on them by the framers of our constitution and the oaths they have just taken to do impartial justice. They must conduct a fair trial – fair to the president and fair to the American people”.
  • None of this would have been attainable without our readers’ generosity – your financial support has meant we can keep investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has protected our independence, which has never been so critical. We are so grateful.
  • “This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election, now just months away,” the lawyers said on Saturday, also claiming the charges against the president were invalid as they did not concern a crime.
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What US farmers make of Trump's trade deal - BBC News - 0 views

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  • President Trump has touted his new US-China trade agreement as a boon for America's farmers, who have suffered under a nearly-two-year tariff standoff with Beijing.
  • A summary of the new agreement says that Beijing will now "strive" to purchase an additional $5bn (£3.8bn) of US agricultural products over the next two years.
  • Mr Trump clinched the state by a 0.8% margin, becoming the first Republican to do so since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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  • Farmers make up about 11% of the electorate in Wisconsin, says Charles Franklin, director of the state's leading poll at Marquette Law School.
  • Mr Trump's trade war has added needless stress to an already fragile industry.
  • In the 1990s there were 1,000 ginseng farmers in Wisconsin, Mr Hsu says, growing more than 2m lbs of ginseng. "There are only about 180 farmers left," he says. "It's death by a thousand cuts."
  • It's not quite devastation, he says, but the pressure on farmers is building.
  • "Every year you lose a few farms, every year you lose a few farmers who don't want to keep doing this," says Will Hsu, president of Hsu Ginseng, a ginseng farm in central Wisconsin's Marathon County.
  • "Our labour is stolen, our lives are stolen, our families are broken and it's all because we have politicians who are absolutely clueless to the reality of farming." "Farmers are always the pawns."
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Trump Hopes Trade Deals Will Boost Growth. Experts Don't Agree. - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Cabinet secretaries and White House officials have predicted that President Trump’s initial trade agreement with China and his revised accord with Mexico and Canada — slated for final passage this week — will deliver twin jolts to the economy.
  • hope: Mr. Trump is up for re-election, and the economy appears to have grown by just over 2 percent in 2019, a dip from 2018 and well short of the administration’s forecasts of growth above 3 percent for the year.
  • Mr. Mnuchin said on Sunday that he expected the economy to grow between 2.5 percent and 3 percent this year,
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  • She expects the nation’s economy to grow by 1.8 percent this year.
  • the deal calls for China to begin purchasing what the administration says will be $200 billion worth of American crops and other exported goods and services. Those purchases should increase exports from the United States to China, which, all else being equal, would promote growth.
  • administration officials appear to be counting on the agreement to revive business investment in the United States, which has fallen in recent quarters after surging in the first half of 2018.
  • The bullish case for the China agreement is that it will ease that uncertainty.
  • Many economists have praised the agreements for reducing uncertainty, but few have raised their growth forecasts because of them.
  • Mr. Trump had waged his trade wars on fronts well beyond North America and China. New trade battles loom this year, including one between the United States and France over a French push to impose a new tax that hits American tech giants like Google and Amazon.
  • Several economists expressed optimism that a “Phase 2” deal with China that rolls back more tariffs
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A federal watchdog weighs in on the Ukraine matter, saying the Trump administration bro... - 0 views

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  • The House impeachment managers are expected to enter the Senate chamber about noon, where they will read the articles of impeachment against President Trump aloud to the assembled senators.
  • A federal watchdog concluded the Trump administration violated the law in the Ukraine matter by withholding security assistance.
  • The Trump administration violated the law in withholding security assistance aid to Ukraine
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  • The Government Accountability Office said the White House Office of Management and Budget withheld the nearly $400 million, which was allocated by Congress, for “a policy reason” in violation of the Impoundment Control Act.
  • Ms. Grisham also criticized the House impeachment proceedings and said the White House expected that Mr. Trump’s formal response to the charges would prove he did nothing wrong.
  • History will be made swiftly on Thursday, as the Senate initiates only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history in three hours or less.
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  • Modern government office blocks in the Australian capital Canberra have been closed because the air inside is too dangerous for civil servants to breathe.
  • The sun has glowed an eerie red behind a brown shrouded sky for weeks over Australian metropolitan areas that usually rank high in the world’s most livable cities indexes
  • It’s an unprecedented dilemma for Australians accustomed to blue skies and sunny days that has raised fears for the long-term health consequences if prolonged exposure to choking smoke becomes the new summer norm. Similar concerns over smoke are emerging in other regions of the globe being impacted by more fires tied to climate change, including the Western US.
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  • My daughter hasn’t shown any sort of symptoms, let’s say. For me, I can feel it in my lungs, my throat has felt weird
  • Slovenian tennis player Dalila Jakupovic fell to her knees in a coughing fit on Wednesday while competing in a qualifying match for the Australian Open in Melbourne.
  • Hospital admissions have increased in the smoke-affected cities, with some patients suffering from asthma for the first time in their lives. The government has responded by distributing 3.5 million free particle-excluding masks.
  • Short-term exposure to wildfire smoke can worsen existing asthma and lung disease, leading to emergency room treatment or hospitalization, studies have shown.
  • There is little known about the long-term effects of wildfire smoke because of difficulties in studying populations years after a wildfire.
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White House wants impeachment trial over in 2 weeks - 0 views

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  • The White House wants President Trump’s impeachment trial to end in two weeks — with no witnesses called to testify.
  • “It is extraordinarily unlikely that we would be going beyond two weeks. We think that the case is overwhelming for the president and the Senate is not going to have any need to be taking that amount of time,” the senior official said on a conference call.
  • Trump is accused of obstructing Congress and abusing his power by allegedly pushing Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
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  • Trump has issued mixed messages on how he would like the Senate to handle the trial and it’s unclear if White House wishes will evolve.
  • The senior administration official said it was time to “get this process behind the country,” and said it would be “appropriate” for senators to dismiss the case after hearing opening presentations from House Democrats and Trump’s defense team.
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Nancy Pelosi references 'Irishman' over Trump impeachment - 0 views

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  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday likened President Trump’s request for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “do us a favor” to coded mob lingo by invoking the new Martin Scorsese flick “The Irishman.”
  • she signed two articles of impeachment against the president.
  • Then, taking even further liberty with the White House-released transcript of the call between Trump and Zelensky, Pelosi said, “Do you paint houses too? What is this? Do me a favor?”
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  • In the July 2019 phone call, Trump asked Zelesnky, “But do us a favor” by investigating former US vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, over their dealings in the Eastern European nation.
  • The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted last month to bring two articles of impeachment against Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to the Ukraine imbroglio.
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Rain may help battle Australia fires - but could cause other problems - 0 views

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  • Rain has started pouring down on Australia — bringing some much-needed relief to areas of the country ravaged by bushfires and drought
  • The rains will not put out all the fires but will bring relief for firefighters battling the blazes, The Washington Post reported.
  • A second weather system will form, triggering supercell storms over the states of Victoria, South Australia and western New South Wales, further benefiting the country’s east coast.
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  • the New South Wales government is working on addressing new challenges the rain will bring — including damaging gusts of wind, flash flooding and ash and debris in water supplies
  • Rescuers have worked to save wildlife by dropping carrots as celebrities pledge large donations to help with fire relief efforts.
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GOP leader McCarthy slams SI Rep. Max Rose over Trump impeachment - 0 views

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  • House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused first-term Staten Island Democratic Rep. Max Rose Wednesday of portraying President Trump as guilty until proven innocent amid the fight over impeachment.
  • “The president says he’s innocent. So all we’re saying is prove it,” McCarthy recounted
  • The Trump impeachment case has been a vexing issue for Rose, a Democrat who represents a moderate-to-conservative leaning swing district.
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  • Rose initially opposed impeachment as counterproductive. But he changed his mind after seeing revelations about Trump’s handling of funding for Ukraine.
  • McCarthy’s shot at Rose shows that Republicans are aiming to win back the Staten Island seat.
  • “I don’t think he would know what it means to do what’s right even if it smacked him across the head with a 2×4.”
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Iran's president Rouhani says 'no limit' to nuclear enrichment - 0 views

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  • Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday said that Tehran is now enriching more uranium than before it agreed to the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers.
  • Iran has gradually scaled back its commitments under the nuclear deal in retaliation to President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the pact in 2018 and to reimpose crippling sanctions on the country’s economy.
  • After the Jan. 3 US airstrike that killed top general Qassem Soleimani, Iran said it would abandon all restrictions placed by the nuclear deal.
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  • In recent months it has raised its enrichment of uranium to 4.5 percent — higher than the 3.67 percent limit set by the deal but far from the 20 percent enrichment it was engaged in before the agreement.
  • In his address to the bankers, Rouhani acknowledged that the sanctions had caused economic pain. But he added that economic considerations could not be separate from foreign policy and national security, suggesting that Iran will not give in to US demands.
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  • US government insiders privately blamed former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama for turning the military mission in Afghanistan into America’s longest war by repeatedly expanding it beyond a response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, according to a report Monday.
  • “We have to say good enough is good enough. That is why we are there 15 years later. We are trying to achieve the unachievable instead of achieving the achievable.”
  • Obama’s plan to defeat the Taliban with a massive counterinsurgency campaign, and his promise to bring home all American troops by the end of his presidency, were also inevitably doomed to fail, the documents reveal.
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  • The auditing agency, created by Congress in 2008, spent $11 million on a project called “Lessons Learned” that involved having staffers interview more than 600 people with firsthand knowledge of the war in an attempt to prevent the US from repeating the mistakes made in Afghanistan.
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Interchangeable Parts - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • During the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, machines took over most of the manufacturing work from men,
  • allowed relatively unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost, and made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier.
  • Eli Whitney first made his name at the tender age of 27 with his invention of the cotton gin, patented in 1794. This revolutionary device was easily copied, however, and several patent infringement lawsuits gained little to no financial reward for Whitney and his partners.
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  • The last of the 10,000 muskets that Whitney had promised in his original contract came in eight years late, but were judged to be of superior quality, and he produced 15,000 more within the next four years.
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Water and Air Pollution - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • Along with amazing technological advances, the Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century introduced new sources of air and water pollution.
  • Out of this movement came events like Earth Day, and legislative victories like the Clean Air Act (1970) and the Clean Water Act (1972).
  • The resulting smog and soot had serious health impacts on the residents of growing urban centers.
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  • the Great Smog of 1952, pollutants from factories and home fireplaces mixed with air condensation killed at least 4,000 people in London over the course of several days.
  • However, in 2007, almost half (46 percent) of all Americans resided in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association (ALA).
  • It irritates the respiratory tract and can lead to a number of health problems, including asthma attacks, chest pain and even death.
  • It causes many other health effects, premature births to serious respiratory disorders, even when the particle levels are very low. It makes asthma worse and causes wheezing, coughing and respiratory irritation in anyone with sensitive airways. It also triggers heart attacks, strokes, irregular heartbeat, and premature death.”
  • For centuries, humans unknowingly contaminated sources of drinking water with raw sewage, which led to diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
  • Water pollution intensified with the advent of the Industrial Revolution,
  • Over half the American population (including the majority of those living in rural areas) relies on groundwater for drinking water, according to The Groundwater Foundation
  • The disaster, which created a 3,000-square-mile oil slick, instantly killed hundreds of thousands of birds, fish and other wildlife and devastated the area for years afterward.
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Child Labor - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • Although children had been servants and apprentices throughout most of human history, child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution
  • Children were useful as laborers because their size allowed them to move in small spaces in factories or mines where adults couldn’t fit, children were easier to manage and control and perhaps most importantly, children could be paid less than adults.
  • During the Great Depression, Americans wanted all available jobs to go to adults rather than children
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  • In colonial America, child labor was not a subject of controversy. It was an integral part of the agricultural and handicraft economy.
  • They could be paid lower wages, were more tractable and easily managed than adults, and were very difficult for unions to organize.
  • In 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16.
  • The new supply of child workers was matched by a tremendous expansion of American industry in the last quarter of the nineteenth century that increased the jobs suitable for children.
  • Despite these activities, success depended heavily on the political climate in the nation as well as developments that reduced the need or desirability of child labor.
  • ucational reformers of the mid-nineteenth century convinced many among the native-born population that primary school education was a necessity for both perso
  • Many laws restricting child labor were passed as part of the progressive reform movement of this period.
  • The Great Depression changed political attitudes in the United States significantly, and child labor reform benefited.
  • Although child labor has been substantially eliminated, it still poses a problem in a few areas of the economy.
  • Employers in the garment industry in New York City have turned to the children of illegal immigrants in an effort to compete with imports from low-wage nations.
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The Guillotine's First Cut - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin rose before the National Assembly in 1789 to lobby for equality in a most unlikely area: capital punishment.
  • The Parisian deputy and anatomy professor argued that it was unfair for common criminals in France to be executed by tortuous methods such as hanging, burning at the stake and breaking on the wheel while aristocratic felons had the privilege of quick decapitations, particularly if they tipped their executioners to ensure swift sword chops.
  • “Give me back my wooden gallows,” members of the mob chanted.
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  • “The mechanism falls like lightning; the head flies off; the blood spurts; the man no longer exists,” Guillotin told his colleagues.
  • A throng of curious Parisians filled the plaza outside Hôtel de Ville and watched for two hours as the guillotine, appropriately painted blood red, was assembled on a scaffold.
  • speed up the guillotine’s construction for the sake of the “unfortunate man condemned to death, who realizes his fate and for whom each moment that prolongs his life must be a death for him.”
  • Sanson warned the National Assembly that beheading by sword was an inexact science that would require dozens of skilled executioners,
  • Toy manufacturers even produced miniature contraptions that children used to behead dolls and live mice.
  • Sanson could guillotine a dozen victims in just 13 minutes.
  • housands—often without trial and with little cause—were beheaded by guillotine blades.
  • (The use of the guillotine for French executions continued until 1977. France abolished capital punishment in 1981.)
  • Guillotin became deeply distressed at how the device that he intended to be an example of the democratic nature and forward thinking of the French Revolution instead became a symbol of carnage and terror. Worst of all, the fatal machine will forever be attached to his name.
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Third Estate makes Tennis Court Oath - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate, which represent commoners and the lower clergy, meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse.
  • Louis XVI, who ascended the French throne in 1774, proved unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems he had inherited from his grandfather, King Louis XV. In 1789, in a desperate attempt to address France’s economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of the French people–the nobles, the clergy, and the commons.
  • The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king.
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  • In response, Parisians mobilized and on July 14 stormed the Bastille–a state prison where they believed ammunition was stored–and the French Revolution began.
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Marie-Antoinette - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1755, Marie Antoinette married the future French king Louis XVI when she was just 15 years old.
  • Marie Antoinette herself became the target of a great deal of vicious gossip
  • Marie Antoinette was arrested and tried for trumped-up crimes against the French republic. She was convicted and sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793.
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  • Marie Antoinette, the 15th child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg empress Maria Theresa
  • More than 5,000 guests watched as the two teenagers were married. It was the beginning of Marie Antoinette’s life in the public eye.
  • Eighteenth-century colonial wars–particularly the American Revolution, in which the French had intervened on behalf of the colonists–had created a tremendous debt for the French state
  • Life as a public figure was not easy for Marie Antoinette.
  • she spent most of her time socializing and indulging her extravagant tastes. (For example, she had a model farm built on the palace grounds so that she and her ladies-in-waiting could dress in elaborate costumes and pretend to be milkmaids and shepherdesses.
  • There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever said that starving peasants should “eat cake” if they had no bread. In fact, the story of a fatuous noblewoman who said “Let them eat cake!” appears in the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, which was written around 1766 (when Marie Antoinette was just 11 years old).
  • Before long, it had become fashionable to blame Marie Antoinette for all of France’s problems.
  • ordinary people, on the other hand, felt squeezed by high taxes and resentful of the royal family’s conspicuous spending.
  • Louis XVI and his advisers tried to impose a more representative system of taxation, but the nobility resisted.
  • Marie Antoinette continued to be a convenient target for their rage. Cartoonists and pamphleteers depicted her as an “Austrian whore” doing everything she could to undermine the French nation.
  • One of Marie Antoinette’s best friends, the Princesse de Lamballe, was dismembered in the street, and revolutionaries paraded her head and body parts through Paris.
  • In July 1793, she lost custody of her young son, who was forced to accuse her of sexual abuse and incest before a Revolutionary tribunal. In October, she was convicted of treason and sent to the guillotine. She was 37 years old.
  • She and the people around her seemed to represent everything that was wrong with the monarchy and the Second Estate: They appeared to be tone-deaf, out of touch, disloyal (along with her allegedly treasonous behavior, writers and pamphleteers frequently accused the queen of adultery) and self-interested. What Marie Antoinette was actually like was beside the point; the image of the queen was far more influential than the woman herself.
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Charlotte Corday assassinates French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat - HISTORY - 0 views

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  • Jean-Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer.
  • With the arrest of the king in August of that year, Marat was elected as a deputy of Paris to the Convention.
  • By 1793, Charlotte Corday, the daughter of an impoverished aristocrat and an ally of the Girondists in Normandy, came to regard Marat as the unholy enemy of France and plotted his assassination.
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  • Marat, who had a persistent skin disease, was working as usual in his bath when Corday pulled a knife from her bodice and stabbed him in his chest.
  • Corday waited calmly for the police to come and arrest her. She was guillotined four days later.
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  • One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
  • Louis assembled the States-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of the French people–the nobles, the clergy, and the commons.
  • On July 14, 1789, violence erupted when Parisians stormed the Bastille–a state prison where they believed ammunition was stored.
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  • Louis resisted the advice of constitutional monarchists who sought to reform the monarchy in order to save it
  • Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791, which reduced him to a mere figurehead.
  • In August 1792, the royal couple was arrested by the sans-cullottes and imprisoned
  • In November, evidence of Louis XVI’s counterrevolutionary intrigues with Austria and other foreign nations was discovered, and he was put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
  • Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority
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