Causes Of The French Revolution

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How do we classify the French Revolution? The French Revolution inspired many different events in European history and became a turning point. There were many flaws within the French Revolution, although there were ideas that left a huge impact in the lives of many, especially the way they saw and thought of their country. In the end, the French Revolution ended up in destroying a country and taking many unnecessary lives. The French revolution was not revolutionary because the French people never rid the country of the unwanted ways of governing, the goals life, liberty, and brotherhood were never achieved, and the country's government kept going back and forth between multiple forms of government. One of the many goals of the
The ideas of the French Revolution were mainly based off the Enlightenment thinker John Locke. Enlightenment thinker John Locke believed that all men, not including women, were given certain rights at birth. These were known as the natural rights; the right to life, liberty, and property. John Locke’s ideas were not the only ideas that helped give fire to the revolution but his played an important role in giving it the spark. French citizens, who were part of the national assembly (3rd estate), based their constitution of “The Rights of Men” off the American declaration of independence, which also incorporated ideas from John Locke. The French people had seen how the 13 colonies of the United States wrote their own declaration of freedom, which declared they deserved the same rights as any other Englishman. In France, the people wished to do the same but in this case the ideas that they were fighting for were life, liberty, and brotherhood. A quote showing this is, “The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man…Therefore the National Assembly recognizes and proclaims, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen:” The document written by the National Assembly used the Declaration of Independence as a base but were inspired by the enlightenment thinkers ideas of natural rights. It was in this document that they began to act upon those ideas. (The natural rights included the ideas of life, liberty, and brotherhood.) Part of the French