Please do not see this as me looking down on the US war for independence, but it’s slightly easier to get rid of your king when you’re an ocean away from his armies. Additionally, they got help from France, the Nederlands, Spain, against just … England (but don’t underestimate England’s power at the time).
And in France, it was not just the King, but the whole aristocracy class, and the clergy class too, who had been abusing their powers for centuries.
The Enlightenment happened, and French philosophers were a big part of it. And then the American Revolution happened. This was quite encouraging.
When the French Revolution happened, many components have to be taken into consideration: the country is in a terrible financial state while the new “National Assembly” is mostly composed of …show more content…
Thing is, people were already riled up, in arms and in the streets. It only took a speech to unite them against “those foreigners” and the “treasonous nobility”. It worked, France not only resisted, it even was pretty successful, thanks in parts to very good military commanders, one of which was called Napoleon Bonaparte.
One more aspect of this revolution that people know less about, abroad: it was more of a mess than you imagine. The government system changed few times, including the number of heads of state. Under so much pressure and paranoia, we had a period called “the Terror” where many people got executed simply under suspicion of maybe perhaps being an enemy of the state because having thought that someone in the opposition had a point.
So to sum up: revolution started by hungry common people with complete lack of rights, but both commoners and bourgeois hated those too heavy taxes and utter lack of representation at any
And in France, it was not just the King, but the whole aristocracy class, and the clergy class too, who had been abusing their powers for centuries.
The Enlightenment happened, and French philosophers were a big part of it. And then the American Revolution happened. This was quite encouraging.
When the French Revolution happened, many components have to be taken into consideration: the country is in a terrible financial state while the new “National Assembly” is mostly composed of …show more content…
Thing is, people were already riled up, in arms and in the streets. It only took a speech to unite them against “those foreigners” and the “treasonous nobility”. It worked, France not only resisted, it even was pretty successful, thanks in parts to very good military commanders, one of which was called Napoleon Bonaparte.
One more aspect of this revolution that people know less about, abroad: it was more of a mess than you imagine. The government system changed few times, including the number of heads of state. Under so much pressure and paranoia, we had a period called “the Terror” where many people got executed simply under suspicion of maybe perhaps being an enemy of the state because having thought that someone in the opposition had a point.
So to sum up: revolution started by hungry common people with complete lack of rights, but both commoners and bourgeois hated those too heavy taxes and utter lack of representation at any