The French Revolution

The French Revolution

The French Revolution was a notable event that plays an important part in France’s history. Women, ordinary men, clergy, and nobles took drastic steps to secure freedom for a country that was financially ruined. During the French Revolution, classes of people were fighting for liberty. Surprisingly enough, woman’s participation played a vital role in the French Revolution; they participated in political, social, and military roles. For instance,   French women played a role in the French Revolution to universal rights, to get their universal rights which were never fulfilled.

The Revolution had much impact on France; it resulted in instituting divorce into their legislation in 1792 giving women the right to a divorce. The law was revoked under the Restoration when France returned to orthodoxy in 1816.The revolutionaries believed that liberty was an inalienable right, especially because the American colonist defeated the British in the War of Independence. On October 5, 1789, six thousand Parisian women marched on toward Versailles forcing the King to make decisions on problems with the bread supply, high prices, and starvation.The French native’s c not only wanted liberty, but they also wanted equality. The French people were willing to give up their political right to gain equality. Past regime equality had only for the First Estate and Second Estates.

Nobles and clergy were exempt from direct tax or land tax. The majority of the taxes were paid by the Third Estate, which consisted of peasants, artisans, merchants, and professional men. Among the different three estates, taxes were not equal. The French people wanted equality, and all three estates met in a suburb of Paris called Versailles. At this meeting, the three properties demanded reforms and a constitution. The three estates were known as the Estates General. The French people demanded equality even if the ruler of France disagreed, thus starting the French Revolution. The revolution led to a finished constitution in 1791. The revolution created a new form a government. The government was divided into two parties known as the Constitutional Royalist and the Republicans. The French Revolution and the War of Independence both had distaste for the monarchy and for power which exercised without regard for its citizen’s. The French Revolution led to a dictatorship.

As indicated by the Aristocracy, there was to be no expectation for the bourgeoisie; they couldn’t make strides, ever. One must be naturally introduced to their social class, for them, this was too terrible. The Aristocracy trusted that one could be as prosperous as they needed and as prosperous as they could get yet there was no real way to climb the step socially. Due to this, the bourgeoisie chose to look to alternate individuals from the third domain, the laborers. There were numerous other Economic troubles that tormented France in the eighteenth century. There was much destitution all through the nation, however just inside the poor part of the third bequest.

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After twelve years of suffering, war, carnage and betrayals, the revolution that broke out in 1791 in Saint-Domingue finally abolished slavery and brought independence to Haiti. Its successive stages, marked by numerous shocks and setbacks, were largely determined by the ebbs and flow of the revolution in France. Eventually the revolution which broke open in 1791 in Saint-Domingue finally succeeded in abolishing slavery and achieved independence in Haiti. This revolution was the consequence and the prolongation of the French Revolution. Its successive stages, marked by numerous shocks and turnarounds, were largely determined by the flux and reflux of the French Revolution. The history of the revolution is indeed full of heroism and sacrifices. The insurgent slaves finished by defeating, each in turn, the great European powers like Spain, England and France. But it is also a history of greed, cynicism and inhumane cruelty on the part of the ruling classes.

In any case, in the eighteenth century, the respectability like the privileged tended to move its in. This didn’t take into account a prosperous individual in the third domain to move to the second home. After the illumination, social portability was appeared to be an awesome stride into cutting edge society. On the off chance that one could move socially, then there was promise for their future that one could better their lives to make them less demanding and more prosperous. Without this social change, there would be no way to the transformation. Amid the eighteenth century, France experienced numerous years of financial issue. France’s treasury had been depleted during the time through trivial spending, wars, and absence of asset revival. Louis XIV, XV, and XVI had been spending enormous during their time as head of state. Numerous years of their paltry spending had depleted the French treasury, over excessive state meals, new royal residence building, reclamation, and pointless measures of cash spent on individual ancient rarities and private spending. Wars all through the eighteenth century additionally had depleted the French treasury. Numerous nations had been through vast wars with France. Their financial plan on their armed force was gastronomical; their war obligation was broad and to pay for these France went straight to the treasury. The reproduction of the torn battle regions was modified by France; again France looked to the treasury.

During the French Revolution, the Estate Generals came together and created a brotherhood to achieve Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. People of France used to protest and violence to voice the people’s desire for freedom. This freedom only occurs if the Estate Generals come together and create the brotherhood. Noble men relinquished alienable rights established from birth. Wonder what would have happened if the Estate Generals did not come together to achieve a common goal for the greater good of the people.

Napoleon Bonaparte was the declared the emperor of France in his reign during the French Revolution. During the invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte was informed by his lieutenants that chance of success was slight. Napoleon Bonaparte refused to listen to the advice given. As a result, the Russian winters were too harsh on Napoleon’s men, who did not have the adequate equipment needed to sustain a long winter engagement with the Russian Army. The citizens of Moscow inflamed all of the structures before leaving the city. When Napoleon’s army arrived in Moscow, there were no places for his army to take refuge. Napoleon’s ego thought his army would defeat the Russian Army in one day. Hubris was manifested in this incident for Napoleon’s desire for his empire building and to ambition to dominate Czar Alexander Throughout history, the French Revolution was one of the most famous examples of hubris. Napoleon Bonaparte showed many examples of hubris by his confidence turning into arrogance, failure to face challenging realities, and series of success with his other invasions. French government sent army, to bring order on the island of Saint Dominingue. However, before they arrived in Saint Domingue, the Parisian insurrection of August 10 1793 overthrew the monarchy and drove out the representatives of the slave-owning bourgeois. This new phase of the French Revolution had a lot of consequences for slaves Saint-Domingue, because the armed popular masses, on which the revolutionary power rested, were in favor of the abolition of slavery. For the first time, the slaves of Saint-Domingue had powerful allies in France.

Toussaint and his army of slaves were Spanish in order to battle the armed forces sent from France. After having reorganized his troops, Toussaint had taken a series of towns. The British, profiting from the difficulties of Sonthonax, were in control of the entire west coast, with the exception of the capital. Overwhelmed on all coasts and threatened with defeat, Sonthonax sought the support of Toussaint against the British. To this end, he would go as far as to decree the abolition of slavery. But Toussaint was suspicious .Toussaint learned of the decree of February 4. 1794 abolishing slavery, that he joined Sonthonax to fight the British.

The authority and power of Toussaint Louverture grew. With 5000 men under his command, he held a fortified position between the north and west of the island. The British forces and the Spanish had superior arms and provision .They were former slaves. The source of their force came from their revolutionary enthusiasm and their fear of the restoration of slavery. This gave the former slaves a colossal advantage over their adversaries, who were fighting for interests that were not their own. Poorly armed and starving, the former slaves showed proof of strong courage and combativeness under fire from the enemy. When they were lacking fire arms, they used stones or bare hands. The struggle for liberty became an attraction for all the oppressed of the island, which gave Toussaint a mass social base.

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One of the biggest complaints in France during the French Revolution was high taxes. The peasants, clergy, and nobles all believed they were being overtaxed to pay for King Louis XV interest payments on previous loans that made the financial crisis in France worse. King Louis XV participation in the war with the colonies and the continent proved to be a costly expense maintaining his army and navy .The French people were starving and tired of paying higher prices for food and taxes. The only way that the king knew to raise money to pay for the countries needs was to raise taxes for all. Toward the end of the revolution, King Louis XVI took his family and tried leaving France. King Louis XVI and family were caught by the National Guard and brought back to Paris. With the defection of the king, the new regime was willing to absorb the previously government’s debts. The new governments were in charge of church properties and issued treasury bonds in the form of paper money in attempt to raise money. The assignats increased inflation worse than when King Louis XVI was in power.

The guillotine was started to during this time to make death penalty less painful, by cutting off peoples’ heads instantly. Napoleon Bonaparte recognized the importance of science. Napoleon knew that physics and chemistry was a valuable part of both industry and war. Napoleon restructured the tax system, authorized the creation of the central banking system, and the most significant achievement was codification of law known as the Napoleon code 2000. The Napoleon Code did not include any rights for women. The woman did not have political rights or divorce rights, and females were not independent or equal to men.

French people started the French Revolution to establish liberty, equality, relief high taxes, and the hope for a new constitution. Years of oppression and fiscal mismanagement gave peasants, artisans, merchants, clergy, and even nobles a cause to unite and fight for liberty. These changes that occurred during the French Revolution were made possible due to people of all kinds wanting a better place to work and live without giving the majority of their money to pay for their government fiscal problems. The government went from being ruled by a King to General Estates, Assembly, and National Convention to the Constitution of 1795.

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