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French Revolution

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THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE OLD REGIME French society was based on the inequality of rights = the idea of privilege
3 social classes during the French Revolution French society was divided into three legal categories known as the three orders or estates 1. The First Estate = the clergy 2. The Second Estate = the nobles 3. The Third Estate = the commoners
THE FIRST ESTATE The clergy - priests and church officials They numbered about 130,000 out of French population of about 27 million The church owned 10% of the land
THE SECOND ESTATE The nobles - aristocrats/titled individuals through heredity They numbered about 350,000 Held the top positions in the government, the military, the law courts, and high church offices
THE THIRD ESTATE The commoners - the vast majority of the population
BOURGEOISIE Made up about 8% of the pop. Merchants, industrialists, bankers, and professionals = what would today be called “white collar workers” Middle class resented being excluded from top jobs resented the social and political privileges of the nobles
Long term PROBLEMS FACING THE FRENCH MONARCHY Bad harvests in 1787-1788 = food shortages Beginnings of a manufacturing depression Rising food prices Unemployment in the cities Influence of the Enlightenment = interest and desire for reform and modernization
THE UNEXPECTED REVOLUTION The meeting of the E.-G. unexpectedly starts the revolution
King Louis XIV King of France and one of the first ones to be executed by guillotine in 1793
Marie Antoinnete unpopular Queen of Fran
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