In What Ways The French Revolution Affected France, It’S People And The European States?”

In what ways the French Revolution affected France, it’s people and the European States?”

An Introduction to French Revolution

A revolution1 in terms of a great Russian writer is a swift over-throw, in a few years , of institutions which have taken centuries to root in the soil , and seem so fixed and immovable that even the most ardent reformers hardly dare to attack them in their writings. It is the fall, the crumbling away in a brief period, of all that up to that time has composed the essence of social ,religious, political and economic life in a nation.” (Hendrik Willem, The Story of the Mankind, Cosimo Inc,2005, p.334) Such a revolution had happened in France in 18th century and changed the structure of France and Europe.

French society of 18th century was under the social and political system of the Ancient Regime, in which the people were divided into three orders according to their status: nobility-aristocracy(First Estate), clergy (Second Estate) and the rest of the population, the Third Estate. The first tow classes had many privileges in contrast with the Third Estate that had only obligations. The bourgeoisie, the upper class in the third estate ,couldn’t more afford their exclusion from political decisions and using the indignation and the abjection of the other poorer   members of the third estate, tried to gain power. As the life conditions of the third estate were becoming worst and the King Louis XVI with his inability to solve the financial problems followed by the potential bankruptcy of France and his scare to oppose to the nobility and the clergy , was dropping the burden to the third estate by raises   to the taxation that only them should pay ,the people had to revolt .
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Riots in riches houses and government’s depots from poor starved people had taken place. These riots always leaded by the bourgeoisie in order to promote her interests and Enlightenment’s   great...