Kategorier: Alle - monarchy - crisis - enlightenment - capitalism

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French Revolution

The overthrow of France's absolute monarchy was fueled by a combination of structural and conjunctural causes. Enlightenment ideas spread, challenging the entrenched privileges of the clergy and nobility, who resisted reforms to maintain their power.

French Revolution

French Revolution

The States-General

National Asembly

Oath of National Asmebly (Third Satate) in the tennis court Pavillion

Where all social classes were represented
It was convocated in extraordinary ocassions
The only Institution really trained to aprove this reform

Causes

Structural
minority privileged (clergy and nobility) resistence

Abuse and use their power in their benefits above all in time crisis

Manteining their privileges

Resist changes

Commoners drowned by taxes, rents and laws (Fault of rights and feudal system)
A new social power - Burgueoisie wants to acces to the power
Absolut Monarchy
Enlightenment thinking spread
Conjunctural
Economic crisis

High Monarchy's expenditure

Court luxury

Monarchy's lack of money

Miltary costs

French governement spend amounts of money in wars

poor harverst

Technical and technological delay

traditional agrarian methods vs British takeoff

High unemployeed

Rise of prices especially products of first necessity (bread)

Social crisis

Hunger

Poverty

French participation in American War of Independence

Legacy

Culture
Division Churc - State

Laicism

Cultural industrie

Museums

Public education

secular

compulsory

state education

Capitalism
Freedom of trade and contract
metric system
economic liberalisation
Political life
Public Opinion
Press
Parties
The basis of Democracy
division of powers
Equality before the law
Constitution
Popular sovereignty
Bill of Rights

Development

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