Essay On Why Did The Middle Class Win The French Revolution

The revolution that occurred in France during the eighteenth century became the harbinger for new ideas which originated with righteous proclamations and ended in a reign of terror. I think that it is best to say that the middle class did not win the French Revolution because it did not properly establish a persistent government that could protect the rights of the third estate and its extreme bloodshed could not be justified by the minimal success that the French middle class did obtain. It’s hard to consider that any revolution is a success when it does not achieve its permanent objectives alongside massive loss of life throughout the revolutionary process. Because of the financial crisis that had befallen France in 1789 due to their stiff competition with Britain to for supremacy and support for the American Revolution, many voices began to advocate for reforms in the economy and the national government. In light of …show more content…
This of course put limits on the power of the monarchy and some of the changes that took place during the French revolution and Napoleonic era were not reversed. These changes included the abolishment of old regime jurisdictions and the establishment of one standardized legal code that appointed judges administered. The Catholic Church also lost all of its lands which came to be under control of the local governments within France. French aristocracy also made a return and recovered much of the land they owned, however they no longer retained their privileges of the old regime and peasants had to obligation to them. Much of these changes that did take place, allowed the 3rd estate to gain news rights and a sense of new possibilities within the system with many of their old regime burdens such as, control, taxes, and feudalism being abolished during the process of the