WAS A MOVEMENT THAT SHOOK FRANCE BETWEEN 1787-1799. AND IT ENDED THE ANCIEN REGIME. MAJOR CAUSES INCLUDED AN UNDERFED POPULATION, LOSS OF PEASANT SUPPORT FOR THE FEUDAL SYSTEM, AN EXPANDING BOURGEOISIE WITH NO POLITICAL POWER AND A MAJOR FISCAL CRISIS BROUGHT ON BY ENDLESS WARS AND EXTRAVAGANT SPENDING IN THE LAST CENTURY AS WELL AS AS SITING THE US IN THEIR REVOLUTION, THE NOBLE AND CLERGY’S REFUSAL TO GIVE UP THEIR TAX EXEMPTIONS… THE COUNTRY WAS HEADING TOWARDS BANKRUPTCY AND LOUIS XVI HAD TO CALL A MEETING OF THE ESTATES-GENERAL WHICH HADN’T BEEN DONE SINCE 1614. HE WAS FORCED TO ADMIT THAT HE NEEDED PERMISSION TO RAISE TAXES, HE WASN’T PLANNING ON MAKING SERIOUS CHANGES BUT JUTS FIXING THE SITUATION FOR NOW. LOCKED OUT, THEY HELD THEIR MEETING IN AN INDOOR TENNIS COURT AND CALLED FOR THE TENNIS COURT OATH THAT THEY WOULDN’T LEAVE UNTIL THEY HAD A NEW CONSTITUTION, THE KING GRUDGINGLY AGREE TO THE 3 RD ESTATE FORMING A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUT RUMOURS OF AN ARISTOCRATIC CONSPIRACY LED TO THE GREAT FEAR OF 1789 AND PARISIANS SEIZED THE BASTILLE ON 14 TH JULY.
THE ASSEMBLY DRAFTED A NEW CONSTITUTION DECLARING THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN, PROCLAIMING LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY. THE BOURGEOISIE AND COMMON PEOPLE GAINED CONTROL OF THE STATE AND INSTITUTED REFORMS, THEY ABOLISHED SPECIAL PRIVILEGES FOR THE NOBLE AND THE CLERGY, THEY SOLD THEIR LAND TO PAY OFF DEBTS. BUT THE POOR (SAN-CULOTTES WANTED MORE DONE FOR THEM AND THE NOBLES WANTED THEIR RIGHTS BACK AND THIS CAUSED MORE PROBLEMS AND REVOLTS. IN THE MEANTIME LOUIS XVI FLED AND WAS APPREHENDED AT VARENNES AND WAS TRIED FOR TREASON AND EXECUTED IN 1793. THEN THERE WAS THE REIGN OF TERROR AND THE JACOBINS WITH ROBESPIERRE AND ST JUST IN CHARGE TOOK CONTROL AND HAD THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY. REVOLTIONNARY COURTS FOR FORMED AND ANYONE AGAIN TS THE REPUBLIC WAS EXECUTED, EVENTUALLY THEY TURNED AGAINST ROBESPIERER AND HE WAS EXECUTED AS WELL.
The Essay on Nobel Prize Nomination
Nobel Prize Nomination Abstract In this paper I will discuss the Nobel Prize as a most popular and considerable nomination today. Also I will analyze Nobel Prize not as an abstract nomination but as an experience of people. So I want to find out about some particular winners while doing this paper. Because Nobel Prize has been created for people who just work persistently and have success doing ...
IN 1799 NAPOLEON OVER THREW THE GOV IN A COUP D’ETAT AND TOOK CONTROL WITH A MILITARY DICTATORHSIP WHO KEPT THE NEW IDEAS OF LOSS OF PRIVILEGES FOR NOBLES AND CLERGY.
