April 20  The Birth of the Modern World(?)

key terms: de Gouges, Wollstonecraft, Romanticism, Napoleon

impact of the revolutionary/Napoleonic period

A.  destruction of the Old Regime

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 (died in childbirth))





B. democracy

C.  the bourgeoisie

D.  secularization
Romanticism



J L David


J M W Turner



E.  the modern state

Napoleon Bonaparte



totalitarianism