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The constitutional monarchy
National constituent assembly made some legal reforms: feudal rights were abolished (peasentry) Declaration of the rights of man and of citizen: rights, freedoms and equality 1791 constitution: - Constitutional monarchy Popular sovereignty
Separation of powers
limited male suffrage (men with certain wealth, in a celsus) -
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Legislative assembly (1791/92)
New constitution: end of privileges, guilds…
The members sat according to their ideology:
Moderates on the center Royalist on the right To solve the financial problem church properties were expropiated and sold. Civil constitution:
established the separation
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Jacobine convention
The executive power was applied by the committee of public safety led by Maximiliane Robespierre. They had a double problem European coalition and war against them. Counter-revolutionary activities in france. All citizens were forced to join the army by a mass conscript -
The terror
Under the jacobins control, the government imposed a dictatorship to finish with conspiracies
(the terror)
Freedoms were suspended and those who protested or criticised the government
Some social laws were introduced
They tried to control the prices, specially the food’s: laws of the maximum
Lands owned by the church were sold
Primary education became compulsory 1973-75 the jacobins were the most radical bourgeois sector the final act of the convention: -
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Constitutional Monarchy
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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Social republic
In the history of France, the First Republic, officially the French Republic, was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire on 18 May 1804 under Napoleon, although the form of the government changed several times. -
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Conservative republic
The Republican Party (French: Parti républicain, PR) was a liberal conservative political party in France founded in 1977. It replaced the National Federation of the Independent Republicans that was founded in 1966. It was created by the then-President of France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.