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In addition to these social changes, the French population grew from 18 million in 1700 to 26 million in 1789, becoming the most populous state in Europe;
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Traditional views of the French Revolution often attribute the financial crisis of the 1780s to the heavy spending of the Anglo-French War of 1778-1783, but modern economic studies show this to be incorrect.
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El imperio resultante frente a la angustia económica generalizada llevó a la convocatoria de los Estados Generales.
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It began with the self-proclamation of the Third State as the National Assembly -
On July 11, 1789, King Louis XVI, acting under the influence of conservative nobles as well as his brother, Count D'Artois, fired Minister Necker and ordered the rebuilding of the Ministry of Finance. Much of the people of Paris interpreted this measure as a self-coup by royalty, and took to the streets in open rebellion. Some of the military remained neutral, but others joined the people. -
The revolution clashed hard with the Catholic Church, which became dependent on the State. In 1790 the Church's authority to tax crops was removed, the privileges of the clergy were removed, and their property was confiscate -
Ended with the coup of Napoleon Bonaparte -
It was a revolutionary process that began in Paris, France, with the so-called July Revolution or the Three Glorious -
Revolution or revolutions of 1848, Spring of the Peoples or Year of the Revolutions are historiographical names of the revolutionary wave that ended the Europe of the Restoration (the predominance of absolutism in the European continent since the Congress of Vienna of 1814-1815). -
It was an insurrectionary movement that from March 18 to May 28, 1871, briefly governed the city of Paris, establishing the first government of the working class in the world whose spirit was self-managed socialism.