French Revolution: Napoleon.

French Revolution. -Louis XIV, bankrupted France with his foreign wars and his new palace, Versailles. -Louis xvi financial minister was Turgot. A man of the enlightenment, Turgot tried to tax land [mostly owned by nobles] free tariffs and line up liberate of the corvee. -Nobles and clergy were exempt from taxation and where against Turgots leftover to tax them. So they make Louis XVI get unblock of Turgot and hire Necker, a Swiss banker -Necker financially supported the American Rev. which made a large debt for France. -King needed m whizzy so the nobles and clergy forced him to call the demesnes normal, a governing var.y from the scram ages, to help him get money estates world(a) 3 Estates were: 1. Clergy- 1 % of pop. -10% of land 2. Nobility- 3% of pop. -20% of land -2 kinds of nobility; nobility of sword-ancient nobility & angstrom unit; nobility of robe-rich hoi polloi who became nobles 3. Bourgeoisie- Merchants, lawyers, peasants, artisans 3rd Estate demanded 3 things: 1. meeting in one room-so they wouldnt be ignored 2.Voting by individuals, non by estates-bc the clergy and nobility were a minority but they always voted together to hinder Bourgeoisie 3.Double represendation of 3rd Estate-since they represented 97% of the pop.

-cahiers were lists of complaints from the delegates sent to the King -Louis XVI kicked the 3rd Estate place of the Estate General so they met on lawn tennis courts outside and formed a National Assembly; in response, Louis XVI called the army to capital of France -people of Paris stormed the Prison of Bastille on July 14 [Bastille Day in France today] to get ammunition and free prisoners -san-coulutte is the bod for the lower class people of Paris who are very radical -peasants also rebelled in the countryside out of the Great Fear-that the nobility were desirous their... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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