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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Financial Weakness (led to calling of Estates - General) |
- France in debt due to foreign policy - Eden Treaty led to less demand for luxury goods - Tax farming (Farmers-General) - Deficit (112m livres) - Necker's Compte Rendu - Corvee Royale |
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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Personality of King and Marie Antoinette
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- Firmly believed in Divine Right - Lacked self belief - Failure of will & preparedness when calling the Estates-Geneal - Marie Antoinette= Madame Deficit, L'Autrichienne, diamond necklass affair |
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Alfred Cobban on Louis XVI
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'most uninterested and uninteresting spectators of his own reign'
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Joseph II of Austria on Louis XVI |
'he can never become master of his own business'
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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Enlightenment
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- Rejected tradition and revelation - Philosophes = Rosseau, Diderot, Voltaire - Attacked church and perceived despotism of monarchy - Foundation of revolution |
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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Role of the army and first estate
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- Cahiers from first estate (clergy show dislike for pluralism and nobles against despotism & injustice) - Were amiable to change - 89% willing to give up their financial privileges - Leaders: Duc d'Orleans, Lafayette - Mutiny with Gardes-Francaise at Bastille |
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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Economic Crisis
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- Harvest of 1788 disasterous - Population pressure - 88% of wages being spent on bread - Unemployment - Textiles production fell 50% 1789 - Reveillion Riots
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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Popular pressure
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- 10th July 1789 citizens militia to protect property owners - Storming of the Bastille (14th July) * 'inspired a much wider revolutionary movement in France' - J. Godechot - Great Fear - October Days - March of the Women |
