French Revolution
Describe and Analyze How the Ideas and Objectives of the Men and Women Who Participated in the French Revolution Changed Over Time
The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century inspired revolutionary ideas in France in the 1790s. During the French Revolution time, the rulers of the revolution, the bourgeois, promoted liberal, enlightened ideas like equality before the law and religious freedom. With the idea of natural rights for a couple years, feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges began to stand up for women's right. However it was felt that the bourgeois were not capable enough to survive in a free society. Throughout the revolution liberalism and nationalism were growing and the people were becoming known as highest citizens in politics. The ideas and objectives of the people during the French Revolution changed throughout its Declaration of the Rights of Women, National Convention and the National Assembly. In the seventeen hundreds, before the revolution had begun, France’s political system, social structure, and religious ideas were slightly changing. Louis XVI took the throne in 1774 with his wife, Marie Antoinette and the people’s hope that he was going to revive his country. While the king and queen were living their luxurious life, were not in touch with the suffering and misery of the peasantry. Louis got involved in the American Revolution by sending aid, which had the effect of putting France into more debt. After this, The Estates General’s power rested with the first and the second estates and times for the peasants were bad as Arthur Young, an English writer on agriculture, economics, and social statistics, points out in his Plight of the French Peasants. They were working in harsh conditions, paying heavy taxes, and they only had one vote in the Estates General. The bourgeoisie longed for equality amongst all citizens in society and so they asked for another vote. The
The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century inspired revolutionary ideas in France in the 1790s. During the French Revolution time, the rulers of the revolution, the bourgeois, promoted liberal, enlightened ideas like equality before the law and religious freedom. With the idea of natural rights for a couple years, feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges began to stand up for women's right. However it was felt that the bourgeois were not capable enough to survive in a free society. Throughout the revolution liberalism and nationalism were growing and the people were becoming known as highest citizens in politics. The ideas and objectives of the people during the French Revolution changed throughout its Declaration of the Rights of Women, National Convention and the National Assembly. In the seventeen hundreds, before the revolution had begun, France’s political system, social structure, and religious ideas were slightly changing. Louis XVI took the throne in 1774 with his wife, Marie Antoinette and the people’s hope that he was going to revive his country. While the king and queen were living their luxurious life, were not in touch with the suffering and misery of the peasantry. Louis got involved in the American Revolution by sending aid, which had the effect of putting France into more debt. After this, The Estates General’s power rested with the first and the second estates and times for the peasants were bad as Arthur Young, an English writer on agriculture, economics, and social statistics, points out in his Plight of the French Peasants. They were working in harsh conditions, paying heavy taxes, and they only had one vote in the Estates General. The bourgeoisie longed for equality amongst all citizens in society and so they asked for another vote. The