https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843 Nicolle Ortiz / Patricia Gutierrez en-us 2021-04-30 16:17:06 UTC 2024-11-09 06:37:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1e8-1f1f5.png carlao15249 https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843/wish/1478954276 The French Revolution was by far the most momentous upheaval of the whole revolutionary age. It replaced the old regime with modern society, and at its extreme phase it became very radical, so much so that later revolutionary movements have looked back to it as a predecessor to themselves.]]> 2021-04-30 16:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843/wish/1478954276 carlao15249 https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843/wish/1479890758 The revolution was precipitated by a financial collapse of the government. What overloaded the government was by no means the costly magnificence of the court of Versailles. The nobility, trough the Parlement, thus revealed its aim. The revolution began as another victory in the aristocratic resurgence against the absolutism if the king. ]]> 2021-04-30 20:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843/wish/1479890758 carlao15249 https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843/wish/1479901920 The country meanwhile was falling into dissolution. The lower class, below the bourgeoisie, were out of hand. For them too convocation of the Estates General had seemed to herald a new era. The harvest of 1788 had been poor; the price of bread was higher than at any time since the death of Louis XlV. The towns were afraid of being swamped by beggars and desperadoes. This was true even in Paris, the largest city in Europe except London]]> 2021-04-30 20:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/carlao15249/3hi22da2i648w843/wish/1479901920