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Thesis
The French Revolution was a turning point in history, after the economic crisis, the resentment of the absolute monarchy and the history of their estates system: resulting in the French changing their ways and becoming campaigns to the Enlightenment age. -
America and the French
"The Revolution precipitated a series of European wars, forcing the United States to articulate a clear policy of neutrality in order to avoid being embroiled in these European conflicts.” (Office of The Historian)
The French made America stay out of it and warned them if they didn’t they'd be involved and they wouldn't be able to get out of it. -
Voltaire
"His long life spanned the last years of classicism and the eve of the revolutionary era, and during this age of transition his works and activities influenced the direction taken by European civilization." (Britannica)
Voltaire had an ideal progress throughout the revolution, he was a crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty. He did die in 1778 though, just as the Enlightment age started. -
Causes to war
“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.”(Britannca)
The French revolution is a well known “war” in the 18th century the world took violence as an answer to anything so they took it even farther when they had an issue with another monarchy or anarchy. -
Monarchy Overthrown
“Beginning in 1789, the French Revolution saw the French people overthrow their absolute monarchy and bring about a republic that was based on the principles of equality, liberty and fraternity.” (History Crunch)
The French got tired of the monarchy they had set, so they overthrew it and did what they wanted, causing issue to arise, the people wanted freedom and rights so they fought for it. -
Change in Society
“Another impact of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution can be seen in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen."(History Crunch)
Citizen rights were fought for and fixed during the revolution, it had a major impact on the entire society especially after the monarchy was abolished -
Champignons
"Enlightenment ideals were not originally envisioned as universal." (Lumen Learning)
The monarchy was abolished and the people wanted their rights. Look at Mary Wollstonecraft she fought for her rights as a woman during a revolution, she was a feminist in a monarchy full of misogynistic men but she soon became a immediate passionate campaigning to the revolution. -
The Kings Death
“After French King Louis XVI was tried and executed on January 21, 1793, war between France and monarchal nations Great Britain and Spain was inevitable.” (Office of the Historian) After the king was killed the monarchies went at each other and like the source said, it was inevitable, before the king died he was stripped of all of his power forcing the monarchy to be abolished in August 1792. -
Advantages to the Overthrown Monarchy
“The ideals of liberty and equality that were needed to overthrow Louis XVI." (History Crunch)
Enlightenment thinkers helped overthrow the French government and allow the basic rights to a human, when the king was overthrown and executed things took a heavy good turn. -
Napoleon
“Enlightenment vision of throwing out the old authorities to remake society along rational lines, but it devolved into bloody terror that showed the limits of its own ideas and led, a decade later, to the rise of Napoleon." (HISTORY) Napoleon was a leader for the French but he was also a political leader, he looked at people like Mary Wollstonecraft and took that technique to keep that movement going, there wasn’t any limits to what they couldn’t and could have they made what they wanted happen