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French Revolution
Why is French Revolution important?
Abolition of feudalism in France
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Monarchy was aware throughout Europe, including far away from Russia
Equality before the law and the development of the Civil, Criminal, and Mercantile codes, which support a regime of law.
French Revolution Background
Unequal Distribution/STATES:
First State: Clergy - monks, priest - related to the church.
Second State: Monarchy - King and queem.
Third State: The rest of population - rich people and poor people
1780s: Bad harvest, Rise prices, Bread
THE POOR WERE IN HUNGER !!!
Enlightenment: Bourgeois believe in Enlightenment ideas
Dignity of human kind
Sovereign was the people
Separation of the 3 powers
Equality before the law
Napoleón Bonaparte
He expanded France`s Empire.
Gave a coup and ends the French Revolution.
He defended some aspects about the Revolution but proclaimed himself an emperor.
French Revolution Causes
Cultural: Enlightenment philosophy
Social: The bourgeoisie in lack of power
Political: Resistance to Royal reforms, Privileged Rebelion and General States
Financial: France's debt - American Revolution
Economic: Deregulation of the grain market
French Revolution Trends
Girondins:They wish to abolish the monarchy with order and respect.
Jacobins: They wish not only to suppress the monarchy but to bring to justice the king and all the nobles.
Paris Commune: They took control over the revolution process and form the National Assembly (Representatives of the 3rd state)
Skill: Discuss the meaning of the European Revolutions of the late 17th and 19th.
14th of July 1789
The masses rose takeover of the fortress "Bastille", agaisnt the despotism of the French Monarchy.