Assignment 7- Gus Carlson

  On September 22, 1792, the French First Republic was established during the French Revolution. It lasted for twelve years until Napoleon declared the First Empire in 1804, and France is currently on its fifth republic (as a country, it has had lots of political turmoil and overthrows in the past centuries). This declaration was significant because it was the fall of a major monarchy in Europe. This made other monarchies, such as Austria, feel threatened. They sought to restore the monarchy in France and eventually started a Europe-dividing war that lasted until 1815. This started a general period of turmoil in Europe that lasted for a couple of decades. Eventually, under this republic, Napoleon came to power and sought to crush all of Europe under the might of France.
  This started the rise of nationalism, the feeling of patriotism to one's country. The French started to identify as Frenchmen. They felt that they were better than people from other countries. Europeans started truly identifying with their country of birth, and this movement spread around the globe, through European international relations and imperialism. This whole feeling mostly started on September 22, when the French Republic was officially declared.