Louis XVI of France

economic and religious changes in France. The absolutism of the monarchy was overthrown. The National Assembly, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and the march of the women to Versailles initiated a significant period known as the French Revolution. High inflation caused a steep rise in prices of such staples as bread which led to the physical hunger of the lower class people, and unequal taxation angered the merchant and working populations of France. This was a violent…

radical group in France, and he insisted that all men should have rights. In 1791, the National Convention declared France a Republic, and the Jacobins gained control as the National Convention. They tried the previous king Louis XVI for treason, found him guilty, and executed him by guillotine. Now that the Jacobins assumed power, it was their job to deal with the ongoing war against Austria and Prussia. Because of the panic caused by the execution of the king, many people in France were…

Between 1770 and 1780 France came into huge debt and this did not get any better because of their current leader King Louis XVI. King Louis XVI was a very weak leader and paid very little attention to this problem as France was already in debt from the American revolution. During this revolution they borrowed alot of money. King Louis wife, Queen Marie Antoinette spent all of their money on clothes, gambling, and jewelry. After…

Part One The National Convention was the governing body of France from September 21, 1792 to October 26, 1795. Many events pushed the National Convention towards the Reign of Terror, a time of violence and executions during the French Revolution. A few of the reasons were; the execution of their king, Louis XVI, in 1792, the food shortage because of bad harvests, and the ongoing threat of invasion from the rest of the European countries. These events pushed the National Convention to give the…

635-636). In the wake of the fall of the Bastille, many citizens started taking up arms and forming militias. One such militia, with the leadership of the Marquis de Lafayette, a respected American Revolution hero who brought ideas of revolution back to France, became the National Guard, which grew into the main military force on the side of the revolution (Cannistraro 635). In addition to commanding the National Guard, Lafayette also wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man for the National…

voices to the king. Aside from those cahiers that reached the king, the people had no say in what the monarchy decided, and that was how it was supposed to be. The clergyman Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet explained to Louis XIV that it was the king’s divine right and responsibility to take care of France. As long as he met the needs of the people, the king did “not have to justify himself to anyone for what he commands.” This seemingly simplifies the structure of the government because the king did…

During the French Revolution in 1700s, people of France were separated into three social classes or what’s better known as, the estates ("French Revolution.." 1-3) . The first of the three estates was the clergy. The clergy was divided by a higher class and a lower class. The first clergy was formed by the Catholic Church. There then was a second estate, who was made up of rich nobles. These nobles got a lot of privileges that the lower class didn’t. For example they had party’s in the castle in…

too powerful. Furthermore, Montesquieu argued that political laws had to vary because not every law could apply to every person at every time. The idea of having separation of powers, most likely influenced others around him and drew a pattern for France and other countries in the world to create laws that varied from city to city or from state to state. The Spirit of the laws helped to lay the foundations for the subsequent democratic process that began with the French…

The French Revolution changed the country of France permanently when the people overthrew the monarchy and established republic. Although the Revolution had many causes and long-lasting effects, in his book When the King Takes Flight, author Timothy Tackett argues that Louis XVI’s decision to flee France with his family, and its ultimate failure, was a major event that altered the course of the Revolution. The townspeople who had discovered the King were faced with the difficult decision as to…

dong the work day in and day out fell as if they are have been betrayed by the very people that are supposed to be helping them prosper in life, the government. This is exactly what Benjamin Franklin believes to the truth, and what the people of France in 1789 found to be a stark reality. The peasants, typically farmers, and the Bourgeoisie, France’s wealthiest class, felt that their chances to better their lives were being restricted by their own government. Shortly after this consensus the…