Revolution: Immediate Effect On The People In France

As the Enlightenment began in the middle of the 17th century, people began to use reason rather than stick to tradition. New Enlightenment ideas spread throughout Europe such as ideas on government. Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousenan believed that the best government was one formed with the general consent of the people. Other Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Montesquieu believed in freedom of speech and a separation of power within the government. All of these ideas led to the French revolution. During the time period France was still an absolute monarchy under King Louis XVI, causing people to want change by implying new Enlightenment ideas. The revolution in France broke out in 1789 do to social, economical, and political issues including the growth of bourgeoisies, taxes were paid unevenly throughout the three Estates of France, and the Third Estate’s desire for a representative government.

‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’: the motto that France uses to this day and first came about as a result of the French Revolution. This in itself shows that the revolution had a major impact on France. It played a significant role in changing France through, for example, the new definition of nationalism, the abolition of the monarchy and the abolition of feudalism. Whether these changes succeeded in modernising France or resulted in something that was not any better than pre-revolutionary times is what will be discussed in more detail using the above three examples.

The French Revolution was a time rife with violence, with many revolutionaries using extreme actions to overturn the French Monarchy and create a government based on equality and justice, rather than tyranny and despotism. This violence reached gruesome and terrible heights throughout the revolution, but was justified by the revolutionaries, who believed that their goals of total equality, the end of tyranny, and the return to a virtuous society, allowed them to use means necessary to attain these sublime and holy goals. Their goal of total virtue for France was a good goal, but the methods in which they attempted to achieve it were tyrannical. Additionally, nationalism was used as method of convincing the French that pure and virtuous thoughts that drove the revolutionaries to such terrible heights. The Committee of Public Safety believed that personal freedom should be foregone in order to protect France from foreign monarchies in Europe who wanted to reinstall the monarchy. Although their original intention was to better France through overthrowing the monarchy, their methods in eradicating the ideology of the monarchy were cruel and extensively terrible.

The French Revolution of 1789- 1799 was a time of change for many people of France. The Revolution led to many changes in France which at the time of the Revolution, was the most powerful state in Europe. The major cause of the French Revolution was the disputes between the different types of social classes in French society. Harsh economic conditions brought high taxes and bad harvests resulted in suffering for the revolutionary women. They broke people down in Three estates: 1st was made up of the clergy, 2nd was made up of the nobility, and the 3rd was made up of the peasants ( most of the population.) The third estate was the only one being taxed. The women of the French Revolution agreed with the basic universal goals of the French

There’s always a limit on how much a person could bare. When someone is being mistreated, it’s going to come a time when the person retaliate. France was on the verge of bankruptcy because of France’s financial obligations reducing from their involvement in the Seven Years ' War and their participation in the American Revolutionary War. The working class of France were scarcely making it without money and food day to day. The rich and royalty did nothing at all to help. “Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.” A quote from Maximilien de Robespierre, a well-known figure in the French Revolution. He was saying that not all people view thing in the government point of view, and that the people views are more important. The people were fed up and had enough of the rich, wanting to destroy the powerful monarchies and churches. They started being rebellious, starting the French Revolution.

the evolution of the societies in numerous countries brought different consequences on the human species. One of the influences of development was the massive demand of the agricultural resources. The slavery phenomenon was the repercussion of it. The Slavery Convention wrote the first slavery definition as “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the rights of ownership are exercised. “ This essay will argue about the French revolution which had a direct repercussion in Haiti and the United State of America. One of the repercussions is the condition of slavery. It is important to understand that slavery did not start from the French Revolution. This essay will be in three sections: the first paragraph

The French Revolutions Moderate Phase lasted from 1789 to 1792, in time the Third Estate got a lot of power through the people of France. A constitution was written by the National Assembly for France that worked to change multiple things that people in the Third Estate found wrong with the French government, and monarchy was one of the main concerns addressed in the constitution. For a considerably long deal of time prior to the revolution, All of France was separated into different provinces, which were ordered into 83 departments, all of them had resembling population and area. To advertise the trade between departments even better, internal trade barriers were terminated, and the many forms of measurements and weights between areas were eradicated in favor of a single unifying system, we call this single unifying system today the metric system. At this time, several other countries were scared that people might question their own rule, so in order to thwart this possibility, many monarchs decided to go to war against France, trying to restore the monarchy this fighting led to the Radical Phase.

XVI, a monarch who ruled as king of France from 1774 until 1793, was a widely known ruler. “Louis XVI was the last king of France in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789” (Louis). “In 1774, Louis succeeded his grandfather Louis XV as king of France” (BBC). “In 1788, Louis was forced to reinstate France 's National Assembly (the Estates-General) which quickly curtailed the king 's powers” (Execution). Louis attempted escape in 1791 but was captured and returned to Paris” (Execution). Louis XVI was guilty of treason on January 21st, 1973. Louis XVI committed treason and deserved to be guillotined because he had contributed and French Revolution and tried to escape his country during France’s crisis. Another ruler who shared characteristics of Louis XVI was Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein, the fifth president of Iraq, was a cold-blooded dictator. “Saddam Hussein was the ruthless dictator of Iraq from 1979 until 2003” (Saddam Hussein). Saddam Hussein had deserved the death penalty before he was captured and executed by the Americans. Saddam Hussein, when captured, was trialed for hundreds of crimes. Saddam Hussein deserved to go to jail and the outcome of his trial was correct. He was guilty and sentenced to death in 2006.

During the summer of 1793, the radical phase of the French Revolution was intensified by the Terror, created by The Committee of Public Safety. The Terror successfully preserved the Revolution by weeding out counter-revolutionaries to eliminate corruption within the government and giving equality to all social classes which untied France under one government. However, these successes were undermined by the many failures of the Terror due to the oppression of citizens which would lead to many executions and the paranoid slaughtering of citizens from all social classes which led to the changes in support of the Revolution.

The French revolution “broke” Europe. The whole world changed once the effects of the revolution spread through Europe. The series of events that followed the revolution because of the revolution shapes the world today. The general population (the 3rd estate) had enough of absolutism. King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were unpopular. This resulted from multiple things including England humiliating France in the Seven Years War, rising food prices (Hart-Davis 302). They had also been the laughing stock of France due to the fact that they couldn’t have a child for years and Louis XIV was short and fat, not necessarily fitting the mold of a king. They didn’t like Marie Antoinette because of her various, expensive indulgences while

Edmund Burke published the Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790; after the Bastille had been stormed by the Paris mol. He reflects upon about how France was very chaotic. Burke opposed the values of his contemporary revolutionaries; and he predicted that the French revolution would cause problems of fear and chaos to the country. Burke also believed that the revolutionary leaders were more interested in themselves and that they wanted power, however; and really did not care about the well-being of the French people. He believed in the concepts of liberty, equality and the right for everyone; he argues that people should have the opportunity to own their private property. Furthermore, Burke viewed the revolution as a violent takeover of the government, emphasizing that citizens should not have the right to do this. He also argues about importance of tradition in that tradition is what holds society together.

The French Revolution from the years 1789-1815 was a time period of radical social and political reform. Despite the large amount of fatalities, this time in history has had immense influence on that period as well as modern Western Society. Enlightened ideas, an enhanced amount of pride for one’s country, and the emergence of liberalism and conservatism paved the way for reform during that time and served as a model for current events. In essence, the French Revolution and the following Napoleonic Era produced enlightened notions, the start of the separation of church and state, the start of nationalistic ideals, and the emergence of liberalism and conservatism that shaped modern history.

Whilst the exhibition enjoyed support from many French people, opposition to empire began to increase not only in the colonies, but also in France itself from certain groups of society, namely the French Communist Party and the Surrealists (Morton, 2000). These groups of individuals, who opposed French colonial control, conducted the ‘Exposition Anticoloniale’, also known as ‘La Vérité sur les colonies’, which opened on 19th September 1931 (Palermo, 2009). As a reaction to the arrest of a student protesting France’s plans to execute forty Vietnamese prisoners, a tract was drawn up by group of surrealists in protest of the exposition coloniale internationale. The tract condemned the ethics of French colonial rule, “citing the abuse of indigenous labourers and the hypocrisy of ideas of racial superiority”. It was made clear to those who signed the tract that anyone who was in favour of the rights of common workers and wished to see the end of bourgeois domination would not attend the colonial exhibition in Paris (Hale, 2008: 178). It is important to note here that the principal aim of the anti-colonial exhibition was to quickly recruit as many new members as possible to the American Anti-Imperialist League, in addition to collecting sufficient receipts to enable the League to function independently (Palermo, 2009). This suggests that the exhibition served less as a way of persuading people of the negative sides of colonialism, and more of a recruitment process for the

After the American Revolutionary War the French were left with millions of dollars in debt because of their efforts to help the U.S defeat the British. Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the Controller-General of Finances in 1786 attempted to fix the money problem but his ideas on reform offended the French Parliament so much that Louis XVI was forced to dismiss him. The Controller-General of Finances who was appointed after him, Loménie de Brienne found that in order to fix the money problems he was forced to revert to the previously suggested reforms and King Louis XVI registered them without the approval of Parliament. This led to opposition between Parliament and the King, which eventually spread to all of France. Violent riots broke out in towns across France, marking the beginning of the French Revolution (Furet 49-51). The ideas and documents created as a result of the French revolution may have had a significant impact on human rights and modernized law and politics throughout the world.

The French Revolution was arguably and widely regarded by historians as being one of the most important events in human history. The revolution in France (between 1789 to 1799) accelerated the rise of republics and democracies. It became the “focal point for the development of all modern political ideologies, leading to the spread of liberalism, nationalism, socialism, feminism, and secularism (among many others).” The French revolution bared witness to the birth of ‘total war’ by organising the resources of France and the lives of its citizens towards the objective of military conquest. Some of its “central documents, like the Declaration of the Rights of Man, expanded the arena of human rights to include women and slaves, leading to movements for abolitionism and universal suffrage in the next century.” As the modern-era has unfolded in the wake of the French revolution, I will be examining the causes and consequences of the crucial Tennis Court Oath, analysing primarily the work of historians and their perspective on the French Revolution to draw my own conclusions and make insightful comments based off their historiography. I will then draw a conclusion connecting the importance of the revolution to modern society today, and its significance for New Zealanders.