French Revolution In The 1700s
French Revolution In the late 1700’s, France went through a period of time that changed their country drastically. The French Revolution was how France changed the way their government was and how their people lived. Before the Revolution started in 1789, the French used a political and social system called the Old Regime. The Old Regime was the same as “Absolute power.” Absolute power is when the government controls everything that goes on. In the early 1700’s before the Revolution, the French kings had absolute power. King Louis XVIII started this way of government and it was kept going by King Louis XIV. The Kings had control over establishing judges, taxation, appointing new bureaucrats and the government. They also followed the
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Peasants are a lot less fortunate then everyone else. They were required to pay a sizeable amount of their income to the king and a tenth of their taxes to the church. Living conditions for the peasants were terrible. They didn’t have any rights or privileges because the nobles controlled everything that went on. They had no more than 2 sets of clothes. All they had to choose from for food was bread or broth soup. People were uneducated. All they did was work and whatever money they earned, they had to give most of it to the church or the king. The Bourgeoisie were very unhappy people during this time. They are middle class people, but they were put in the third estate with the peasants. Even though it was made up of the most people, it could easily be outvoted by the first and second estates. The main reason they were mad was because the other 2 estates didn’t have to pay any taxes and left the burden of financing the kingdom to the third estate. The tennis court oath essentially marked the beginning of the French Revolution. When the third estate was locked out of the meeting by the first and second estates, they moved to a nearby tennis court and declared themselves the National Assembly and swore never to separate until they had drafted a constitution for
Peasants are a lot less fortunate then everyone else. They were required to pay a sizeable amount of their income to the king and a tenth of their taxes to the church. Living conditions for the peasants were terrible. They didn’t have any rights or privileges because the nobles controlled everything that went on. They had no more than 2 sets of clothes. All they had to choose from for food was bread or broth soup. People were uneducated. All they did was work and whatever money they earned, they had to give most of it to the church or the king. The Bourgeoisie were very unhappy people during this time. They are middle class people, but they were put in the third estate with the peasants. Even though it was made up of the most people, it could easily be outvoted by the first and second estates. The main reason they were mad was because the other 2 estates didn’t have to pay any taxes and left the burden of financing the kingdom to the third estate. The tennis court oath essentially marked the beginning of the French Revolution. When the third estate was locked out of the meeting by the first and second estates, they moved to a nearby tennis court and declared themselves the National Assembly and swore never to separate until they had drafted a constitution for