A vast amount of change for all of the social classes happened during The French Revolution. In 1789 which is the beginning of the Revolution there were around 25,000 noble families (Beck). This was only about one percent of Frances population, but they were the wealthiest class and owned around twenty-five percent of all French land (Beck). Even though the nobles were the wealthiest estate their wealth varied greatly with the average income being 8,000 livres (Beck). The overall life of the nobility degenerated during the French Revolution as a result of changes in tax laws, an increase in equality, the loss of land, and new groups of nobles.
With France in more debt than normal, a new tax on nobles needed to be put into place, which took …show more content…
After land was taken and some had to be repurchased, this balance was broken, with more borrowing than lending so the nobles plummeted in to a debt that was unrecoverable from. Even the landlords suffered from the French Revolution. This was because a law was made allowing peasants to pay capital to the landlord for land or livestock in assignats, an insufficient form of payment (Forster). This was the equivalent of the peasants not paying or underpaying for their land and livestock. This and the debt took the wealth away from nobles which was a large privilege of theirs. Because of the new debt from land and the inadequate form of payment the wealth of the nobility as a whole …show more content…
This was the result of increased taxing, more equality, a loss in land and wealth, and new nobles replacing them. During the time of the revolution and Napoleon the lines between the nobility and middle class blurred and small groups emerged (Woloch). The nobility took many hard blows to their privileges and made them change the way they lived, the "nobles as a group never regained their privileged status" (Popkin). Even after the revolution was long since over the nobility were never able to climb to their previously extremely high held status in
With France in more debt than normal, a new tax on nobles needed to be put into place, which took …show more content…
After land was taken and some had to be repurchased, this balance was broken, with more borrowing than lending so the nobles plummeted in to a debt that was unrecoverable from. Even the landlords suffered from the French Revolution. This was because a law was made allowing peasants to pay capital to the landlord for land or livestock in assignats, an insufficient form of payment (Forster). This was the equivalent of the peasants not paying or underpaying for their land and livestock. This and the debt took the wealth away from nobles which was a large privilege of theirs. Because of the new debt from land and the inadequate form of payment the wealth of the nobility as a whole …show more content…
This was the result of increased taxing, more equality, a loss in land and wealth, and new nobles replacing them. During the time of the revolution and Napoleon the lines between the nobility and middle class blurred and small groups emerged (Woloch). The nobility took many hard blows to their privileges and made them change the way they lived, the "nobles as a group never regained their privileged status" (Popkin). Even after the revolution was long since over the nobility were never able to climb to their previously extremely high held status in