French Revolution
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- Taxes
- We should do that it is unfair that we were the only ones paying taxes.
- We should set up a constitutional government that would make the clergy and nobility pay taxes, too.
- Starvation
- Due to bad harvest we are in a food shortage and will be raising the prices as well as unemployment
- how are we supposed to get food
- what?!!!
- Enlightenment Philosophies
- I am Montesquieu.I am a french political philosopher and I discovered the Spirit of Laws.
- I am Jean Jacques Rousseau.I am a philosopher,and a composer.I discovered the social contract
- I am Voltaire.I am a french enlightenment writer,historian,and philosopher.
- France's tax system was based on tradition and custom, and many thought that it was unfairly applied.The three unfair taxes were the taille, gabelle, and vingtième. Third Estate wanted to set up a constitutional government that would make the clergy and nobility pay taxes, too.
- Estates General meeting/Tennis Court Oath
- All members of this assembly must take a solemn oath,so repeat after me.
- In 1787 and 1788 there were bad harvests and led to food shortages,and raised prices for food and unemployment.People were starving because there was no bread or food for them to eat.
- Storming of the Bastille
- I surrender
- We insist that the royal family come back to Paris!
- They did not advocate revolution,but their ideas were widely spread among the literate middle class and noble elites of France.The enlightenment thinkers were Voltaire,Montesquieu,and Rousseau.The enlightenment ideas then formed an underlying background to the French Revolution.
- Women's March to Versailles
- The Estates-General was the name of the pre-Revolutionary French assembly.Jacques created this meeting in which deputies of the Third Estate vowed to create a new constitution for France.Also all the members of this Assembly shall immediately take a solemn oath never to separate.
- July 14,1789 about 900 Persians came together at the courtyard of Bastille,they stormed the Bastille.They were fighting for hours until the prison warden surrendered.They cut off his head and demolished the Bastille.
- FIGHT!!tear this place down
- Thousands of Parisian women were armed with broomsticks,pitchforks,pistols,and other weapons.Some women met with the king and told them about their children starving.The women insisted for the royal family to return to Paris,so they did and carried wagon loads of flour from the palace storehouse.
- Our children are starving!We need bread asap!
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