French Revolution And The Reign Of Terror Essay

French Revolution and the Reign of Terror By 1700s France was recognized as Europe’s most advanced country with foreign trade, large population, and raising culture. Even through everything seemed great unrest was rising between the three estates. This unrest in France’s society came from the poor conditions of the third estate, which was 97 percent of the population. The unfair conditions of the three estates lead to new-enlightened ideas, the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror. Before the revolution France was under a political system of three social classes. The first estate was made up of Roman Catholic clergymen; these estates held just over 10 percent of land in France and were only accounted for 2 percent of income tax. The second estate held most of France’s nobles who held jobs in the government, army, and courts. Neither the second nor the first were required to pay taxes and a majority did not, abandoning it to the third estate. The third estate formed 97 percent of France’s population had three different groups. The first was the bourgeoisie or the middle class this group was composed of bankers, merchants, artisans, lawyers, and doctors. Even through some of the people in this group were nobles they had to …show more content…
A Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre had gained power and was appointed leader of the Committee of Public Safely. His rule was known as The Reign of Terror. Under his regime the enemies of France were tried by morning and put to death by the evening. In surprise the enemies that troubled Robespierre were fellow radicals who were less radical then he was. During the Terror Robespierre executed over 40,000 people. With growing concern of their own death members of the National Convention tried Robespierre then put to death. One year after the start of his crusade his death ended the Reign of Terror and the radical part of the French