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peasants and farmers having smaller incomes, while food prices rose sharply.
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by the mid-19th century the great expansion of the bourgeoisie social class caused its stratification
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establishing dummy corporations to receive French funds and military supplies.
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The first estate was the clergy; the second estate, the nobility, and the third estate the commoners.
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Few of these owned enough land to support a family and most were forced to take on extra work as poorly paid laborers on larger farms.
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The king was not considered part of any estate
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both privileged classes in medieval European society.
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The first estate was the clergy; the second estate, the nobility, and the third estate the commoners.
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was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799). The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins.
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The Constitutional Monarchy was a period during the French Revolution from 1791 to 1792 during which Louis XVI enjoyed only a fraction of the power he had as an absolute monarch; developments of this change began in 1789.
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Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793.
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a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.
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played a key role in the French Revolution, gradually expanding their power to control the National Assembly, the Legislative Assembly, and soon the National Convention as well
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enlightened the intellectual world in Europe with its new philosophical ideas.
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The Conservative Republic, also called the Authoritarian Republic, was a period in the history of Chile that extended between 1831 and 1861, characterized by the hegemony of the Conservative Party, whose supporters were called "pelucones."
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A number of ill-advised financial maneuvers in the late 1700s worsened the financial situation of the already cash-strapped French government.