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Deficit Spending By the Governement and Econonmic Reform
In France, Paris there are 3 classes or estates. There is the first one is clergy and the second one is nobility and the third one is the compromised the vast majority of the population. The church owned 10% of the land and they didn’t have to pay taxes to the state.Also in the late 1780’s bad harvest sent the food prices sky high and brought hunger to the poorest peasants and city dwellers. Louis XVI was well meaning but weak and indecisive, but a wise choice was to hire Jacques Necker. -
Louis XVI Calls the Estates-General
In 1788 came to a close, France tottered on the verge of bankruptcy.So a buffled Louis XVI finally summoned the Estates General to meet at Versailles the following year.In preparation,Louis had all three estates prepared called cashiers for reforming such fair taxes.The cashiers were testified to boiling class resentments, one called tax collecters”bloodsuckers of the nation who drink the tears of the unfortunate from goblet of gold”. -
Parisans storm the Bastille
On July 14,1789, the city of Paris seized the spotlight from the National Assembly meeting in Versailles.The streets were buzzing with rumors that royal troops were going to occupy the capital.More then 800 Parisians assembled outside the Bastille,a grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners.The crowd demanded weapons and gunpowder believed to be stored there.The Bastille was a symbol to the people of France representing years of abuse by the monarchy -
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National Assembly Acts
The national assembly voted to end their own privilages, they agreed to give up their old manorial dues, exclusive hunting rights, special legal status , and exemption from taxes. August 4th was turned into a law. The french declared all men were born and remain free and equal rights. The French enjoyed their natural rights to liberty, property and security. All male citizens were created equal to the law. Trying to get women to have equal rights also. -
Threats from abroad
European rulers increased border patrols to stop the spread of the “French Plague”.Fueling those fears were the horror stories that were told by émigrés nobles,clergy,and others who had fled France and its revolutionary forces.Émigrés reported attacks on their privileges,their property, their religion, and even their lives.In August 1791, the king of Prussia and the emperor of Austria-who was Marie Antoinette’s brother-issued the Declaration Of Pilnitz. In this document, the two monarchs threate -
Civil War
n Paris and other cities, working-class men and women, called sans-culottes, pushed the revolution into a more radical action.They were called sans-culottes,which means “without breeches” because they wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that upper-class men wore.By 1791,many sans-culottes demanded a republic,or government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch.In April 1792,the war of words between France and other countries. -
Monarchy Is Abolished
On august 10, 1792 a crowd of Parisians stormed the royal palace of the Tuileries and slaughter the Kings Guards. The royal family fled to the legislative assembly ,escaping before the mob came. On September 1792 the French made it republic and made a new consitution and stayed away from all of the old ways. -
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Rodespierre and the Reigon of Terror:
Rodespierre, shared lawyer and politican quickly rose to the leadership of the Committee of Public Safety.Robespierre had embraced Rousseau’s Idea of the general will as the source of all legitimate law.He promoted religious toleration and wanted to abolish slavery. Robespierre was one of the chief architect of the Reign of Terror,which lasted from September 1793 to July 1794. About 300,000 were arrested during the Reigon of Terror.Seventeen thousand were executed. -
Third Stage of the Revolution
The Constitution of 1795 set up a five man Directory and a two-house legislature elected by make citizens of property.The middle class and professional people of the bourgoisie were the dominant forces during this stage of the French Revolution.he Directory faced growing discontent.Peace was made with Prussia and Spain, but war with Austria and Great Britain contuined.Well rising bread prices stirred hunrgy sans-culottes to riot,the Directory quickly were suppressed them. As chaos threatened -
Spread Of Natioanlism
In 1799 the 10 year old French Revolution changed France. There was no longer the social contract order, overthrown the monarchy and brought church under state control. Nationalism is a feeling of a pride and devotion for a country . This is a strong feeling that came from the revolution and war.They showed it by going to civic festivals , they danced and and sang songs. The troops would march around and sing a new song the la Marseillaise this became the national anthem
