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" Ancien"...Political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution. Under this system, everyone was a subject of the king of France as well as a member of an estate and province. All rights and status flowed from the social institutions, divided into three orders: clergy, nobility, and others (the Third Estate). There was no national citizenship. |
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Arose in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. In the 18th century, these middle class professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status. Karl Marx was one of many thinkers who treated the French Revolution as a revolution of the middle class. |
Bourgeoisie |
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A period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. The gathering of troops around Paris provoked insurrection, and on July 14 the Parisian rabble seized the Bastille. Peasants rose against their lords, and destroying feudal documents. |
GreatFear |
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A dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non-privileged classes of the French nation during the meeting of the Estates-General. Realizing that any attempt at reform would be outvoted by the two privileged orders, the 3rd Estate moved locations and took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France. |
Tennis Court Oath |
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The unfortunate monarch executed during the 1789 French Revolution. He succeeded his grandfather in 1774 and inherited a looming financial crisis just as democratic government was growing in popular and intellectual appeal. He's been portrayed as a wishy-washy king who was too influenced by his extravagant Austrian wife. |
King Louis 16th (XVI) |
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A major social class regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights. 1st - Clergy 2nd - Nobility 3rd - Common People |
Three Estates |
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Any of various historical French parliaments or houses of parliament. From June 17 to July 9, 1789, it was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate. |
National Assembly
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Resented by the French citizenry for her foreign birth and extravagant lifestyle, her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed tothe overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with herhusband (1755-1793) She has gone down in history as the arrogant monarch who, when told the peasants were starving because they had no bread, said "let them eat cake" -most scholars believe the story was phony revolutionary propaganda. |
Marie Antoinette |
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1688-1689 An almost bloodless coup d’état which replaced the Catholic authoritarian James II with the Protestant William III and Mary II and ushering in an era of constitutional monarchy in England . |
Glorious Revolution |
