French Bourgeoisie Research Paper
The French Revolution The FRENCH Revolution signaled the beginning of the rise of the Bourgeoisie in French politics. The French bourgeoisie helped because the French Revolution by the Absolute Monarchy which is a ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people he or she governs. This was wrong because of the Enlightenment being a tax. King Louis XVI had total power and denied all rights of the people. Some problems with the Estates General was that the estate general parliament was made up of 3 classes. The first class was knows as clergy which up of 5%, the second class was nobles who were made up of 2.5%, and the third and final class was commoners which made up 97%, In this estate the Third class had no
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In May of 1789 Louis the Xvi called a meeting of the estates General because he was in desperate need of money. The third Estate refused to accept the traditional way of voting, which each estate had one vote. They wanted all estates to meet together and each person vote. King Louie said no to this. Result of the kings refusal it lead into the June 17 Tennis Court Oath where the third estate declared itself the national assembly and in the tennis court and oath pledge not to disband, until they wrote a constitution for the …show more content…
Jacobins radicals were superiors by san-culottes city workers. In 1792 the war with European countries France went to war with Australia, Prussia, Holland, Spain Portugal, Switzerland, and some other Italian states. In the September of 1792 there was the creation of the National Convention controlled bt Jacobins, this new assembly was elected by universal make suffrage, and abolished the constitutional monarchy created by the first French republic. Creation of the committee of public safety 12 man committee had almost absolute power there goal was to save the revolution and deal with threats. In 1793 to July 1794 the region of terror the reason why 4,000 enemies were killed in the name of liberty. Statistics say 15 percent were nobles and clergy’s, 17 percent were bourgeoisie, and 70 percent were peasants and city
In May of 1789 Louis the Xvi called a meeting of the estates General because he was in desperate need of money. The third Estate refused to accept the traditional way of voting, which each estate had one vote. They wanted all estates to meet together and each person vote. King Louie said no to this. Result of the kings refusal it lead into the June 17 Tennis Court Oath where the third estate declared itself the national assembly and in the tennis court and oath pledge not to disband, until they wrote a constitution for the …show more content…
Jacobins radicals were superiors by san-culottes city workers. In 1792 the war with European countries France went to war with Australia, Prussia, Holland, Spain Portugal, Switzerland, and some other Italian states. In the September of 1792 there was the creation of the National Convention controlled bt Jacobins, this new assembly was elected by universal make suffrage, and abolished the constitutional monarchy created by the first French republic. Creation of the committee of public safety 12 man committee had almost absolute power there goal was to save the revolution and deal with threats. In 1793 to July 1794 the region of terror the reason why 4,000 enemies were killed in the name of liberty. Statistics say 15 percent were nobles and clergy’s, 17 percent were bourgeoisie, and 70 percent were peasants and city