First, there were many problems at the economic area which had to be …show more content…
The thinkers of the Enlightenment wanted to have best for their fellow citizens and to accomplish this they openly endorsed revolution. These ideas of reason commanded the Third Estate to form the National Assembly because they put faith in the people that they were the most important of France. While the upper classes (the richest people) wanted to keep their privileges or treats and maintain the old normal ways. The Third Estate was going to put up with being out because they were in insufficient number. The Enlightenment ideas became the principal thing to the Declaration of Rights of Man. The document said that all citizens had normal rights and gave the French lower class (the poor people) a chance to rise to the level of the upper …show more content…
The Revolutionary Wars that began in 1792 that was a another French Victory that let things easier to conquest the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories of west of the Rhine goals that had eluded previous French governments for centuries. Internally, popular agitation radicalised the Revolution significantly, culminating in the rise of Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins. The dictatorship imposed by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, from 1793 until 1794, established price controls on food and other items, abolished slavery in French colonies abroad, de christianized society through the creation of a new calendar and the expulsion of religious figures, and secured the borders of the new republic from its enemies. A lot of civilians were executed by revolutionary tribunals during the Terror with estimates ranging from 16,000 to 40,000. After the Thermidorian Reaction n executive council known as the Directory assumed control of the French state in 1795. The rule of the Directory was characterised by suspended elections, debt repudiations, financial instability, persecutions against the Catholic clergy, and significant military conquests abroad. Dogged by charges of corruption, the Directory collapsed in a coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. Napoleon, who became the hero of the Revolution through his popular military campaigns, went on to establish the Consulate