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A Very Violent Revolution
Unfear France
• For the people it was not clear were the money came from, but soon the Finance ministers became experts cheating and extorting.
• People were forced to pay huge taxes that same to be been wasted, as the nobility dissipated and gambled the money away.
• The kings of France use to spent vast sums in Entertainments and operatic productions.
• Landowner was also his peasant’s judge and could punish him as he pleased, so anyone who displeased him for any reason whatsoever was simply made to disappear.
• Even thought, to France king Louis XVI same to do not care much about these new ideas.
• It could be seen that lords and ladies strolled in the gardens meat time the peasants starved.
• In Europe, the Enlightenment ideas were becoming extremely popular, and most of the countries adapt them to their ways of living
New times coming
• His brother carefully worn her that “Things cannot go on like this, there will be a terrible revolution if you do not do something to prevent it.”
• Soon Nothing was left with which to pay for the monstrous daily extravagances, and Louis was forced to call an assembly t of the three estates to restore the country’s finances.
• The kings queen Maria Antoinette was a very selfish queen how used to be in plays and life as a royal member and not caring about her people.
• Even thought, the king did not like the proposals and gave orders to representatives of the estates to leave the chamber.
• In answer, Mirabeau tolled the master of ceremonies ‘Go and tell his majesty that we are here through the will of the people and will not leave except at the point of a bayonet!’.
• Meet time the assembled representatives of the nobility, clergy and the bourgeoisie went on discussing what was to be done about the economic crisis.
• And finally, they ended in the conclusion that they needed to introduce the sorts of reform that other states had already adopted.
• When this happened, the king was disturbed by the oppose to his regiment, so he sends troops to disperse the assembly.
Times of revolution
• They wanted that their ruler serves the people, and that they no longer be allowed to abuse their power. They wanted that the people ruled them and not an over powerful king.
• When the kings were forced and confined, the national assembly toke action and introduced a whole new era.
• Mainly they wanted that every man had the same rights and the same duties, this was calling the human rights.
• The revolution started and people wanted to choose their new leader.
• They wanted that that all men were equal and must be treated as such under the law.
• Europe kings started to be unconfutable of what was happening on France, so Prussia and Austria send troops to protect the king.
• Meet time the assembled representatives had taken the decision for the Enlightenment to be put into effect in their entirety.
• But every one that supported the king was treated as traitors and send to prison to be killed.
• With the move of the king Paris was enraged, and decided to rush and toke the Bastille prison, were supposedly the Enlightenment thinkers where been confined.
• The revolutionary tribunal was created and anyone that was an enemy of France was send by this tribunal to the guillotine.
The Revolutionary ages
• After Danton asked for mercy for the criminals he was killed, and Robespierre had his final win.
• Even thought soon the people beheaded the deathly hush as the Revolutionary Tribunal.
• Tropes marched to Paris in response to the king’s execution but, the people did not want to lose their previous freedom, and with it the Region of terror intensified
• Both kings were sent to the Revolutionary tribunal were there were killed by the guillotine.
• After all, the enemies of France had been defeated and the nobility killed or expelled of France.
• “Robespierre and the representatives had declared Christianity to be an ancient superstition and abolished God by decree. Instead, people were to worship Reason.”
• in 1795 five men were elected to form a Directorate, which was to rule the country according to its new constitution.
• The second one was Robespierre how was a sinical an macabre leader that thought that any enemy of France needed to be chopped off. “His opponents were killed in the name of virtue”
• At the end, Belgium and Switzerland also formed republics based on the principles of human rights and equality, and these republics were given military support by the French government.
• First leader of this revolution was Danton a man who had the ability to do powerful speeches that incited the people to ever new attacks upon the king’s supporters.