French Revolution

treated by the government was oppressive. This led to many tensions and conflicts, which eventually led to the French Revolution. The Enlightenment heavily influenced the French Revolution; particularly the social, political, religious, and intellectual ideas the Enlightenment brought into view. The Enlightenment shed light on the religious issues that contributed to the French revolution. In his Philosophical Dictionary: The English Model, Voltaire discusses “natural rights” – freedoms that…

who told him she learned to control her dreams so that she could dream of him every night. Harry was intrigued and asked her to show him how to do it. After learning he went to the tour bus and decided it would be cool to dream that he was in the French revolutionary war. So he placed himself in the year 1788. All the people in France were divided into three social groups better known as estates. The first estate consisted of the pope and bishops (the clergy). The second estates had in it the…

The French Revolution lasted around ten years in between 1789 and 1799. This revolution was a major turning point in history and has lasting effects to this day. There were four phases of the revolution: the moderate phase, the radical phase, the directory, and Napoleon. The events that led to the first phase remain in discussion among historians. However, many infer that the revolution can be traced back to Martin Luther. The religious conflicts of the Protestant Reformation led to absolutism…

ELABORATION French revolution The French Revolution occured in France while Napoleon was in Corsica. The people took over the country by revolting against the Franch king and took control of the country. The royal family and many aristocrats were killed. When Napoleon returned, he allid himself with revolutionaries gropu called the Jacobins. He received a position as the artillery commander at the Siege of Toulon in 1793. The city of Toulon was occupied by British troops and the British navy had…

empire building, produced devastating effects on the economy and social cohesion of the countries involved. In particular, the impact the Seven Years War and the American War of Independence had on the French economy created a volatile environment, setting off a sequence of events leading to the revolution. Spurred by the enlightenment ideals and the devastating effects of the financial crisis, representatives of the Third Estate challenged the political system of absolutism by forming a…

don’t have to pay tax so they are becoming extremely wealthy. They should be the ones paying the most taxes because they are the wealthiest; instead of making the poorest people of all of France pay them. They took an oath not to disband until a new French constitution has been adopted.…

The Enlightenment movement influenced the departure from a monarchy and religious government for France and served as a catalyst in the French Revolution. The Enlightenment was the embodiment of criticism of government and society. The ideas of the French Enlightenment were secular, scientific, critical, and skeptical. It promoted reasoning, reform, and freedom. When King Louis XVI agreed to call the Estates General in 1788, one question remained, Would the assembly vote by order or head? Abbé…

Is Burke in favor of irrational politics based solely on religion? After the French Revolution came to an end, a lot of things were questioned; one of them being the separation of church and state and the destruction of the church. Before the French Revolution, the Catholic Church also called the Gallican Church held an enormous amount of power. The church also held a lot of political power. There was also an income inequality that the clergy was perceived to enjoy. For this reason, the…

Both revolutions brought about a change in the global mindset. The French Revolution introduced the ideas of “nation” and “the people” (Steger 2009, p.20) and that ordinary people could be politically active. In some countries this meant the abolition of feudalism, reduction of the rights of the clergy, a more centralized government, and an increased number of property owners. This was especially felt in areas seized by Napoleon such as some German states, northern Italy, and the kingdom of…

The “siècle des Lumières” and accompanying French Revolution were, and often still are, characterized as mass movements of antagonism towards faith and religion. As the Catholic faith of the old regime crumbled, the revolutionary spirit of the time promised to do away with orthodoxy and create a new egalitarian society based on freedom. Ideas like these were fueled by the French philosophes, with thinkers like Voltaire referring to orthodox religion as “the mother of fanaticism and civil…