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French History Notes

Causes of the French Revolution

• The condition of French society: society was grounded in privilege and inequality; it was split into the three estates
• New political ideas of the Enlightenment proved attractive to both the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie;
• Political grievances: both elites, long accustomed to a new socioeconomic reality based on wealth and economic achievement, were increasingly frustrated by a monarchial system resting on privileges and on an old and rigid social order based on the concept of estates. The opposition of these elites to the old order led them ultimately to drastic action against the monarchial regime
• Food shortages
• Unemployment
• Rising ...

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leading positions in the government, military, law courts, and the higher church offices and sought to always expand and control their power in these areas; exempt from taille;
• 3rd Estate: commoners; divided by vast differences in occupation, level of education, and wealth; peasants made up 75-80% of population, owned 35-40% of the land; although no serfdom, peasants still had obligations to their local landlords that they deeply resented; also consisted of skilled craftsmen, shopkeepers, and other wage earners in the cities;
• Bourgeoisie: middle class; 8% of population; 2.3 million people; owned 20-25 percent of the land; merchants, industrialists, bankers, manufacturing, finance, lawyers, holders of public office, doctors, and writers; often excluded from social and political privileges of the nobility

Government Pre- French Revolution and Post French Revolution

• F

Importance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The French representatives believed that ...

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Added: 4/17/2011 04:03:15 PM
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