Glorious Revolution Vs French Revolution

Compare and contrast the Glorious and French Revolutions with respect to causes,

ideologies and results.

French and Glorious revolutions were two revolutions where people rebelled agains the

monarch and got read of absolute monarchy. However, they were different in terms of

peoples and monarch behavior

The Glorious Revolution: in 1603 James came to power. He did not followed Elizabeth

the I Monarchic majesty.

He was a monarch that believed that devine right came from god. This contradicted

peoples will and laws, like the law that sad that property could not be takes with out

reason. This son Charles II followed this ideas and worked with out parliament that brought

England to economic crisis. However Charles I supported
Catholicism and antagonized

religious sentiments. He wanted to impose the Anglican boom of common prayer to scots,

and when they revolted he called the parliament foe money support for army. The

parliament did not agree. In 1641 Charles had to accept the Triennial Act because of his

fear of Scottish invasion. Next conflict happened in Ireland where England government

exploited people. Charles could not crash scots and Irish, so he left London to the north if

England where the tried to rise an army. In response, the parliament raised this own army.

Parliaments new model army defeated Charles I and crashed his army. Charles was

executed on January 1649. When Cromwell came to power, England stabilized, but his

death meant another monarch.

Charles II became the kind of England. Just as Charles I he we lived in Devine right and

did not work with the parliament tho for could nor raise taxes. To have an income, he

agreed with Louis XIV that Louis would give Charles 200 000 and in return Charles would

re-Catholize England and get read of the "Test Act" that was imposed by the Parliament In

1673. This let to a big wave io anti-Catholosism.

When James II came to the throne he appointed Catholics to high positions. In the court,

judges appointed by James always favorited the king when his actions were questioned.

James believed in absolutism like his father and grandfather. At the end he forbad religious

freedom at all. England knew many mad Catholic monarch (bloody marry) and people

were terrified if the idea that another one would come. At this time people were influenced

with John Locke ideas about individual freedom and rights. To avoid the Catholic

absolutism again and avoid panic and violence among people, the parliament offered the

throne to Mary, who was Protestant, under the promise that parliament would have the

power. She agreed. James escaped to France in December 1688, because he knew that if

he stayed, he would be deheaded

French revolution began in 1789.
People were unhappy with the King Louis XVI and

Marie Antoinette because they ignored demands of peasants. Most of people were

peasants. They had to work for lords and pat taxes when The clergy and nobles did not.

The tension between 2nd and 3rd estate rise, and ended by peasants revolting agains

nobles. Finally, Louis XVI agreed to have a kiting with the representatives of all 3 estates

to talk about taxed, because France was in huge crisis. When the meeting of Estate

happened, Louis gave unfair vote. The estate general turned in the National Assembly.

Angry 3rd Estate occupied the tennis court in Versailles and sad they that would not leave

before they create a new constitution. Louis sends military troops to Paris. That made

people revolt. Parisians destroyed the Bastille and marched to Paris demanding queens

head. At eh same time peasants started to attack nobles houses, burning the feudal

obligations and refused to pay taxes. This is known as the "Great Fear". At the end all the

privileges like: hunting right, fees for justice, monopolies, peasants work abuse were

taken from nobles and clergy. In August 1789 the National Assembly made
the

"declaration of man and citizen" that guaranteed every man "liberty, property, security and

resistance to oppression". This laws was the beefing of liberalism in France. But the

National Assembly did not stop there. Women gained the rights divorce, inherit property

and obtain support for children. Monopolies, guild and barriers for trade were abolished. To

support economic liberty. The National Assembly imposed religious freedom and took all

land from the church. During all this time Louis XVI was till the king, but with his wife Marie

Antoinette they were brought to Paris and has to stay there while Louis was signing all this

lows. In June 1791 they tried to leave Paris to go to Austria to ask for an army that would

stop the revolution, but were stopped and I prisoned. Robespierre came to power and

massacred all the people that were against the revolution, clergy and nobles. Robespierre

decided that Louis had to be killed, and in January 1793. This was the begging on France

being a republic.

Both revolutions stared because of bad king. People in England didn't wasn't another

absolute monarch that would change the county to his will, and in France French people

were tired with the king that didn't listen to them. The Glorious revolution replaced the king

with minimums of blood and revolts, when the French Revolution killed the king, clegry and

a lot of ordinarily people. It created terrible destructions in the city like The Destruction of

Bastille. Ones and for all those revolutions ended the Devine-right idea, and created an

alliance between the parliament and king(England)/ people (France) In England they

created the " Bill of rights" and offered religious freedom. In France they created the "rights

of all man and citizen" that promised people equality, liberty, bread, right to vote and

freedom of religious/press/speech. The glorious and the French revolution was supplied

with ideas of John Locke that the government should protect its people liberty, property

and equality. He believed that all man had those rights because he was man. However, the

parliament represented the upper class, when the estates in France represented more the

peasants. Both, England and France had religious tolerance. French Revolution gave

people right to vote, right of private property, rights for woman and religious freedom, that

England party already had.