How Did The French Revolution Affect France In The 18th Century

King Louis XVI's controller general (Charles Alexandre de Calonne) came up with an solution to there financial problems which would make the eligible class of people no longer taxed and would tax the wealthy more. To support or help with this act the king summoned the Estates-General a sponsor of the clergy, the meeting was scheduled for May

During the 1700s, France’s government was run by a three system estate system. The First Estate was made up by the powerful clergy members, while the Second Estate was made with nobles. Peasants and working men made the Third Estate, also the largest estate. In this large estate there was a little class named the Bourgeoisie was a part of the Third Estate. Though the Bourgeoisie was highly educated and always had stable professions, they were not set aside from the peasants. The Third Estate was treated very poorly during the 1700s. Life was not suitable for the working class. The mistreatment and inequality led to the French Revolution. Inequality during this time period meant that things were not the same throughout each class. Unequal power between the estates, abuse of the Third Estate, and the taxes and price raises were the three reasons that outweighed the many political, social, and economic factors that led to the French Revolution.

Louis called the estates generals to meet which was their first meeting since 1614. The meeting did not go as Louis had planned and his wishes were not agreed with. After six weeks the third estate grew tired and broke out with the other estates.

These causes can be boiled down to economic, political, and social reasons. During the late 1780’s the Third Estate people were being unfairly taxed. France was under a system in which the middle class and peasants were taxed heavily, whereas the nobles and upper class were not. (Doc 1) Thus, to a great population of France, economic issues were very apparent. Along with this, there was a prominent political issue. The ineffective King Louis XVI was in power during this time, and was frequently asked to solve the issues of France. He regularly failed to accommodate to their lists of commands. (Doc 2) There was also a struggle between the nobility and monarchy over reform of the tax system, where they weren’t able to agree and make decisions. During this time in France there were also major social issues. There was discontent between the first, second, and most prominently, the third estate. The third estate people, consisting of middle class and peasants, were being unfairly taxed and mistreated. (Doc 10) This led to anger in the people of the third

a. Burdened by debt from the Seven Years’ War and French support for the American Revolution, King Louis XVI needed to raise taxes, so he agreed to convene the Estates General, which met in 1789 at Versailles. Led by the Third Estates —those outside the aristocracy or church— a new national assembly was declared on June 17, 1789. Its members swore, in the Tennis Court Oath, to

In France, before the French Revolution, the governing body was called the Old Regime. Under Louis XIV and his queen Marie Antoinette, the French society was divided up into three groups. These groups were called the three estates. In this system, the first two estates lived very well while the third estate was very impoverished. This paired with the lack of a strong leader (Louis XIV) caused rising tensions in the third estate. This eventually led to revolution. The main cause of this was the layout of the Old Regime. The Old Regime was made up of three estates that were very different in their governmental abilities and their amount of money.

On July 14, 1789, Parisians were at the National Assembly meeting in Versailles. The Parisians were anxious after hearing about the rumor of royal troops going to occupy the capital. It was then that they went to the Bastille. They went to the Bastille and demanded weapons and gunpowder that they have believed was stored there. The Parisians stormed the Bastille and killed the commander and five other guards. After they killed the guards the released the prisoners.

Storming the Bastille, on July 14, 1789. The storming of the Bastille quickly became a symbol of the French Revolution. Supporters saw it as a blow to tyranny, a step toward freedom. People heard humors of weapons being stored there and they demanded it be given to them. When they got their killing 5 guards and killed the commander and released a handful of prisoners, but found no weapons. The French Revolution will always be remembered as one of the most important events in the history of the world.

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The issue was that each estate had one vote and the second and third estate’s always outvoted the third estate. Because of this the third estate wanted to count votes by the number of heads. After weeks of stalemate the third estate claimed themselves the “ National Assembly” on June 1789. When they went to meet in their assembly hall, they found that it was locked and guarded by the king’s troops. Because of this they met at a nearby indoor tennis court, and it was here that they took their famous tennis court oath. This oath stated "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.".

On July 14th 1789, an angry mob stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress in the center of Paris. The sparsely guarded Bastille had been used as an armory and political prison to represent royal authority. After a standoff that lasted several hours, the people of Paris had gotten into the Bastille, trampling the guards and killing the governor. The fortress was claimed by the citizens and was eventually ordered to be destroyed by the new Paris Commune. The seizure of the Bastille was seen as a symbolic victory; the revolutionaries viewed the structure as a representation of the monarchy’s abusive power. Its fall is considered the turning point of the French Revolution.

However, there was another important factor during these times. France suffered from harsh economic problems. Poor farm harvests by farmers hurt the economy, and trade rules from the Middle Ages still survived, making trade difficult. However, the most serious problem was the problem facing the government during this time. The French government borrowed much money to pay for the wars of Louis XIV. Louis still borrowed money to fight wars and to keep French power alive in Europe. These costs greatly increased the national debt, which was, at the time, already too high.<br><br>When King Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased the financial crisis of France, but he had difficulties when he tried to introduce a major reform, that of taxing the nobles. He had such difficulties because the king could not tax the nobles unless the Parliament approved of the new tax laws. The people in the courts that voted on these laws were the nobles, called nobles of the robe, and therefore rejected Turgot's reform. After Turgot was rejected, the king fired him from his office. This led Louis XVI to summon the Estates General in 1789. The Estates General was the place where representatives from each social class could be represented. Here, many issues would be discussed, and at this time in

Louis XVI inherited a royal mess when he became the king of France in 1775. There were clashes in the social classes and the economy was in havoc. The aristocracy was living off the peasants and borrowed money. The middle class became wealthy merchants from their shops and banks. The low class, the commoners became uneasy; they were supporting the nobles in the aristocracy with their taxes, while constantly barely making ends meet.

The period 1815-1914 in Europe was important, as it was the time of the growth of constitutional government, however events from the French Revolution had a significant impact on the 19th century Europe. French revolutions has began when in 1774 Louise XVI had to deal with a financial crisis cause by 'seven year 's war '. Louise XVI had agreed to summon 'Estate-General ', which represented the clergy, nobles and the Third Estate(the commoners). Inspired by the issues with the voting system of the estate-general, the third assembly has called themselves National Assembly, and threatened to proceed without the clergy and nobles if necessary. On 9 of July 1789 under king 's agreement clergy and nobles has joined the assembly, which was officially called National Constituent Assembly. On the 4 of august 1789 the assembly issued a 'Declaration of the Rights of Man ', which stated that the nation, not the monarchy, was the superior authority, and that the elected representatives of the state would proclaim liberty and equality for the citizens, the right to property and to resit oppression. In respond to peasant riots and attacks on chateaux, the assembly abolished feudalism. By the 1792 both radicals, full of hope to spread the ideas of the Revolution, and the king, optimistic that war would either improve his authority or support from foreign armies. As both agreed in April 20, 1792 France proclaimed a war against Austria. Louise XVI hoped that the war would strengthen his

The French Revolution of the 18th Century presented a theme of hope and change for new political and artistic thought processes as it fought for equal rights over oppression. This Revolution marked the beginning of the Romantic Period, effectively inspiring poets to pursue raw emotion rather than logic or reason as in the previous age. In turn, the revolution gave great influence to several key social poets of the time such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. Accordingly, these poets illustrated the ideals of these revolutionary beliefs to reach the public consciousness of their society through poetic portrayals of the individual achieving greatness or personal understanding through the emotion of nature. As a result, this explication will demonstrate an exploration of romantic techniques to create an interpretation of my poem while examining the elements of Romantic poetry in general based on the works of Coleridge and Wordsworth.