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- French Society During the Late 18th Century
- The Struggle to Survive
- Bread is too expensive!!What will we do now?
- low wages are paid tothe labourers
- At that time only rich kid's goes to school.
- A Growing Middle Class Envisages an End to Privileges
- Louis XVI, in 1774, ascended the throne of France. Financial France was drained because of the war.90 percent of the population was dominated by peasants but only a small number of them owned the land they cultivated. 60 percent was owned by nobles, the Church, and other richer members of the third estate.
- France Becomes a Constitutional Monarchy
- An increase in population led to a rapid increase in food grains. Production of grains could not keep pace with the demand due to which the price of bread rose rapidly. Due to low wages paid to the laborers.
- France Becomes a Republic
- All these groups were educated and believed that no group in society should be privileged by birth. Rather, a person’s social position must depend on his merit. A new form of government was proposed by Rousseau based on a social contract between people and their representatives.
- The Abolition of Slavery
- In 1791, The National Assembly completed the draft of the constitution and its main object was to limit the powers of the monarch. These powers were now separated and assigned to different institutions – the legislature, executive and judiciary. France became a constitutional monarchy.
- In April 1792, the National Assembly voted for a war against Prussia and Austria. Marseillaise became the national anthem of France. Monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792 and France was declared a republic. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on the charge of treason.
- Jacobin regime’s most revolutionary social reform was the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. In the seventeenth century, the slave trade began. Napoleon introduced slavery after ten years. In 1848, slavery was abolished in French colonies.
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