France Section 1770 - 1789 - Crisis in the Old Regime

DBQ: One cause of the Revolution was economic troubles. In 1778’s France, the members of the third estates were being bombarded with taxes. The third estate was supporting the French government with no help from the other 2 estates.

Louis XIV was one of France’s most effective and powerful monarchs. He strengthened his rule with a policy of absolutism. Where the king gained authority directly from God or the divine right to rule. There were no legal limits to the powers that the king could exercise, however, during his rule a monarch had certain influential groups of people who the king needed to negotiate and consult in order to establish an effective functioning government. Among these groups where the land owning nobility, royal officer nobles, the royal commissioners, the Catholic Church, the bourgeoisie and the peasants. More notably seen the King Louis XIV is regarded as the “sun king” because of the great grandeur he

The author explained how the French Revolution starts and also how choice made by the royal government affect the old regime which moved the country into different conflicts. For example, in chapter 1 “The

After reading this book I understand a lot more about the French Revolution. Most of the problems that occurred dealt with the idea of change. Some people like things the way they are, some are afraid of change, and others would like to see something new. Louis XVI wanted things the way they were and be treated as a king is supposed to be treated, and

Although Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great, brought death and destruction through his wars, there are many positive aspects of his reign, such as the creation of Versailles and the building of France’s national army. He did what had never been done before. He changed the lifestyle and the attitude of France by creating one of the most powerful monarchies ever to be built and at the same time, reassured all the nobility and other wealthy groups of their political and social standings. He made it clear that he was the final decision maker yet he still needed the help of the nobility and other authorities.

Some people think that King Louis XIV did more harm to France than good. They cite his lack of moderation in managing his money. They also point out that Louis denied religious liberties to the Protestants of France and tightened control over his Roman Catholic subjects by revoking the Edict of Nantes. They also claim Louis’ war efforts were very costly and drained the treasury of France. Some say his arrogance, including his emblem of the “Sun King”, turned “his” people away from him. They think that Louis only cared about himself and what he wanted and didn’t think about future France.

After being ruled by a prime minister for so long, France needed some changes. That is exactly what Louis the XIV would bring to France. In an age of separation, Louis wanted to start a unification process. He started this by giving himself sole power and also only having one religion for the country. The king is always the center of attention good or bad. Louis was prepared to take the good with the bad, and handled it well. He emphasized the king as the center of attention. While some see him as egotistical and greedy, Louis was one king who knew how to make improvements.

Louis XVI was a French king from 1643 to 1715. He brought dramatic refinement to aristocratic life. The king created a more centralized administration with the population, he forced provincial nobles to abandon their former political influence. It is important to understand this event because aristocracy had the power over other classes, but Louis XVI tried to create a stable system.

The Age of Enlightenment and bad government rule set the stage for the tyranny of the French revolution. Coming to the throne at the age of 19, Louis XVI would attempt to bring the reforms his country needed but would prove too late to save himself and his kingdom as he became one of the many scapegoats of the mob (Louis XVI of France). Indeed, with the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, there can be almost no surprise that France was already headed toward disaster. War was much admired by his predecessors and the cost that he inherited from these foreign wars proved too much for his attempts to repair.

During the eighteenth century there was one central political cause for the French Revolution. King Louis XVI was a weak ruler who endured a lavish lifestyle. He disregarded the people’s needs, leaving much of the French population in discontent. Prior to the revolution the form of government was Absolute monarchy led by Louis XVI. The problem with absolute monarchy was that people were denied basic rights, and a say in government because the divine right theory was abused. The King ruled by the divine right of theory which

A king is a great ruler of an independent state especially the one who inherits the position by birth rights. Kings are also great men that have authority over a kingdom or community. They have a life that is of destruction or peace when it comes to higher power. Most kings have had armies and lots of food sometimes even lots of live animal stock. When it comes to King Louis XVI and what kind of ruler he was, I would say he was a man with great responsibility and crowned as king of France at a very young age, despite his inability to rule. In this paper we will discuss King Louis XVI early life, his reign as king, and his role during the French Revolution

The French Old Regime was traditional under the sense that it had a defined and repeated legal system. Over time, the legal system had lost key meanings and was done as a long-established habit and, ultimately, could not keep up with changing times. Foucault draws one in using an illustrative description of the horror of Damien’s 1757 execution. He indicates right from the beginning his distain with such a method. The French penal ordinance of 1670 set out very harsh penalties but there was a gap between theory and penal practice. Torture was a representation of economy of power—an exact, measurable quantity of pain proportional to the crime. It revealed

Born in 1749, Paris born Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was the youngest of eight children in a bourgeois family. Her mater was a merchant who owned a hat shop. There was much call for reform during her lifetime, the era of the French Revolution. There was a strong reaction against the fanciful Rococo by the 1760s. The goal of the movement was to “inspire virtue and purify manners” (Stokstad 708). French portrait painters moved toward naturalist poses and more everyday settings. Elegant informality continued to be featured, but new themes were introduced, figures tended to be larger and more robust, and compositional arrangements were more stable.

They new that they had no real power, and they also knew that the King was an absolutist ruler. This combined with the 'enlightenment', which was produced by the Philosophers like Rousseau, may have been considered to form the base of a revolution, but it would have never flourished without other factors. Many members of the nobility also held seats in Parlements, which were up for sale. This resulted in the important seats on the councils not being filled by people that are competent, but by people that have enough to please the monarch and their extravagant lives.

Many things had happened during the late 1750's and in the beginning of the 1760's. Something that had happened was the battle between France and Great Britain. Regional issues such as Prussia invading France and the ruthless take-over of native lands and territories helped the British rise in colonial influence in the European struggle for global power in the mid-eighteenth century.