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THE OLD REGIME (Estates (Nobility (High nobility (High positions, owned…
THE OLD REGIME
Estates
Nobility
High nobility
High positions
owned vast lands
Received income from rents
Low nobility
Less money
Married with bourgeois families
Commoners
Peasants
Taxes to the king
Tithe
Bourgeoisie
Doctors
Merchants
The clergy
High clergy
archbishops
Bishops
Low clergy
Monks
Priests
Main characteristics
Privilege
Nobility
clergy
Lack of mobility
person's estates determined at birth
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Thought
Knowledge
Education
Reason
Criticised
Absolutism
Privileges of nobility and clergy
Strict rules of guilds
Tolerance
Natural rights
Individual liberty
Enlightenment thinkers
Voltaire
Strong monarchy
Rousseau
freedom and equality
Montesquieu
separation of powers
Enlightenment despotism
Education
Land
Government
Systems of government
English parliamentarism
Power of parliament
Legislative power
Powe of the King
Executive power
Power of judges and tribunals
Judicial power
French absolutism
Powers of the monarch
Executive power
Legislative power
Judicial power
