Cultural Changes During The French Revolution

Many cultural changes took place during French revolution. It took away many traditional systems of old government and furnished a new revolutionary culture. The three major culture changes were the transformation of academies, libraries, museums and monuments, introduction of new political enlightenment and the beginning of Napoleonic Era. Academies, libraries, museums and monuments were institutions which was mainly a part of old administrations. With the French revolution, these institutions fell on the hands of new government. Academies were mainly controlled by nobles or aristocrats. Earlier, the memberships and prizes of academies were purely controlled by the upper class. But with the revolution, many eliminated the monopoly of aristocrats and abolished academies. Many institutions which were a part of academy previously either got replaced or transformed. For example, Commission on Weights and Measures which was a part of old academy become an independent body with French revolution. It provided a standard metric method to the whole European nations. Similarly, the Royal Academy of Art got transformed into a new society called The Popular and Republican Society of the Art. Another institution that faced
Many rebels tried to promote and revere the new government rule. The new government considered people as the most powerful decision makers. So many commoners embraced the new culture. Many used different kinds of symbols such as red liberty cap with tricolor cockade, pictures of many revolutionaries and bastille. Press also played a major role in glorifying the revolution because it was no longer controlled by old regime. Marseillaise was one of the most famous revolutionary song sung my commoners at that period. Also, the new political culture concentrated on de-Christianization which was not fully welcomed by everyone (Levack et al., 2011,