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  1. 2 days ago · Origins of the Revolution. The French Revolution had general causes common to all the revolutions of the West at the end of the 18th century and particular causes that explain why it was by far the most violent and the most universally significant of these revolutions. The first of the general causes was the social structure of the West.

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  2. Quick Reference. (1748–1836) French plant taxonomist. Jussieu was born into a family of eminent botanists from Lyons in France. His uncles Antoine, Bernard, and Joseph de Jussieu all made important contributions to botany and his son, Adrien, subsequently continued the family tradition. After graduating from the Jardin du Roi in 1770, Jussieu ...

  3. A ntoine-Laurent de Jussieu was an important influential botanist in France at the time of the French Revolution. He developed the principles that served as the basis for a system of classifying plants for over two centuries (in fact, it was only in 1999 that a major revision to this system was proposed), and he helped to completely reorganize ...

  4. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan loʁɑ̃ də ʒysjø]; 12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an extended unpublished work by his uncle, the ...

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  6. During the French revolution Jussieu occupied a civil post in the municipal government, but in 1793, with the reorganization of the Jardin du Roi as the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, he was appointed professor of botany and was charged with field courses. one of his first tasks was to set up an institutional herbarium at the museum ...

  7. Sep 28, 2020 · The French Revolution, a cornerstone event in the annals of history, ignited in 1789, a time when Europe was dominated by monarchical rule and the vestiges of feudalism. This epochal period, which spanned a decade until the late 1790s, witnessed profound social, political, and economic transformations that not only reshaped France but also sent ...

  8. Nov 9, 2009 · The French Revolution was a watershed event in world history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period, French citizens radically ...

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