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French Society- (before the revolution and during)

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French Society- (before the revolution and during)

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When King Louis XVI was king there were 26 million people living in France. The social classes were separated distinctly, and complexity.

The highest in power with the most money were the nobles with about 300,000 in the population

3 million, called the bourgeois "middle class", they were filled with merchants, traders, judges, and others.

The largest group was peasants filled with twenty million people in there lives were the most difficult compared to the higher people in the hierarchy.

The separation of class would soon later one divide the country and start a revolution in France to make people more equal.

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The Financial Crises and what caused it 1750s–80s

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The Financial Crises and what caused it 1750s–80s

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France had fought great Britain in a series of wars. These wars were fought to gain wealth, and power and to prevent other countries from gaining power. Every war was expensive which was the largest reason to France's financial difficulties. The government had increased taxes and they also had to borrow money, when the government could not repay its loans, they could not pay back the part they promised.
The financial problems would reveal the issues in the french society, and threatened the old regime and became part of the downfall of the new king, and start the domino effect of the revolution.

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Political structure under King Louis XVI prior to the revolution 1774

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Political structure under King Louis XVI prior to the revolution 1774

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The new king was highly unprepared for his new duties as king at the age of 19.  The king wanted to be conscientious but he was burdened with the responsibilities. When he became king there were so many things he had to do. One thing about how the work was overflowing with complex jurisdictions and government. Also had many regions to look after even though that had governors, issues that he needed to fix including that the main food source bread was low, money was short people were unhappy. Some of the people in France already questioning the absolute power of the king that would soon change the life of many in France. This also made the people many people more mad, and to start riots in the country resulting in a reason of the start of the revolution.

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Since France was financially weak, and starving from the grain harvest to be destroyed the king was unable to lead France out of its troubles.
France was close to bankruptcy,  do the king called the Estates General who met in 1789.
The deputies of the Estates General was:

First estate= Clergy

Second estates= nobility

Third estate= everyone else.

The Estates General made little to no progress at fixing France's issues. The third estate tried to get other estates to meet with them, to work at fix the country, but the others refused and the third estate formed a group called the national assembly and they would act on their own. Which would eventually be a turning point of the revolution.

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The Role of women in the revolution- before and after 1789

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The Role of women in the revolution- before and after 1789

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Women organized households and had an important role in feeding families, the shortage of bread spurred many to take political steps. Some thought that women should be given the same political rights as men, because they weren’t allowed to vote, and many thought women should confine in traditional roles.
And important women in the French Revolution was Charlotte Corday, she had killed Marat. Marat was an important person because he was sentencing people to death, and writing rants in the newspaper. She killed him in return for peace, instead a martyr was placed and he was worshiped like a god.

Also a large group of women also began to revolt, they needed food for their families, so they started to march demanding bread to be at a fair price. Then the women marched to the palace of Versailles, so that they could confront the king, and the queen. The rebels demanded that he return to Paris with them. He did. Then the crowd demanded to see Queen Marie Antoinette. The people blamed a lot of their problems on the queen and her lavish spending habits.

All of this was important to the revolution because the women all made an impact the revolution.

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Rebels stormed the Bastille,  and were not there to free any prisoners but to get ammunition and arms. At the time 30,000 pounds of gunpowder was stored at the Bastille.  This was important to the french revolution, because Them storming the Bastille would signal the beginning of the french revolution, then which became a symbol of the collapse of the old regime.

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In December 1792, the king was put on trail, and had 33 charges, such as treason, , and failure of leadership. All 693 of the national conventions said that the deputies voted in favor of the kings guilt. And other votes were in wanted him executed without the legal appeal or appeal to the people.
In January 1793 the king was carted to the guillotine and decapitated in front of his people. This was important to  the revolution, because it was a big stepping stone to further the progress to make a republic.

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The Republican government of France started to fight an international war and a civil war against the rebels. Robespierre was the spokesman of public safety committee. He thought that inflicting terror and fear would scare the country's opponents.
So the committee dispatched forces to recapture the cities filled with royalists (enemies of the revolution), and people were hoarding basic goods. They were executed or held in prison.

The terror strengthened France's army by defeating the rebels, and bring out the British fleets. There was a great terror, and 1500 people were guillotined during this period.

France ended it civil war and some of the terror disappeared. Robespierre wanted to start a civic religion. Later on, was executed to finally end the terror. And France's revolution resolved. So the terror benefited and impacted the french revolution in many different ways.