The French Revolution
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- Taxation
- NOW NOW, SHUT YOUR YAMMERING OR WE´LL RAISE IT HIGHER!!
- WE COULD BARELY AFFORD BREAD THEN. HOW DO YOU EXPECT US TO LIVE!!??
- QUIT RAISING THE TAX SYSTEM!!!
- Starvation
- please,, we´re slowly dying,,
- I can spend my money on whoever I want. None of you are my family so why should I care. How bout stop fighting over bread.
- Stop spending money on yourself and help your subjects!! YOU SELFISH HOG!
- Enlightenment philosophers
- A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
- Everything in this world can be made good if we diminish its faults
- We must consider what state of all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom
- France had become one of the highest taxing states in Europe. Mainly cause of it´s warmongering, growing bureaucracy and high spending. Many taxes were collected by a network of private contractors called ¨tax farmers¨ which was a system that encouraged graft, corruption, and tax avoidance. It was more unfair because the Bulk of the nation´s taxation was levied on the Third Estate. Which was France´s common people who could least afford to pay, believed they were shouldering most of the nation´s tax burden while the First and Second Estates paid little or nothing even though they were more wealthy.
- Estates General meeting/Tennis Court Oath
- VOTE PER ONE ESTATE!!!
- The Clergy: Yes indeed!
- For this to happen a severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread starvation mainly in the countryside. Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke, the nobility refused to pay more taxes. The peasants simply couldn´t. Over 300 riots and expeditions to pillage grain were recorded in the space of a little over three weeks.
- Storming of the Bastille
- WE´RE DONE OF BEING CONTROLLED BY YOU!!
- YOU´RE JUST ASKING FOR IT, VIOLENCE IT WILL BE THEN!!!
- They began inspiring the French Revolution in 1789 and emphasized the rights of common men as opposed to the exclusive rights of the elites. As such they laid the foundation for modern, rational democratic societies. Led by Voltaire the philosophers uncovered new ways of thinking, and those are stated above. (in the text bubbles)
- Women´s march to Versailles
- WE WANT YOU BOTH EXILED!! WE´RE NOT MARCHING FOR NOTHING!!
- They took the historic Tennis Court Oath, with which they agreed not too disband until a new French constitution had been adopted. The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France´s financial problems. It ended when the Third estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.
- WE´VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!!!
- IN July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. When the prison governor refused to comply, the mob charged and after a violent battle eventually took over the building. Because of this it set off a series of events that led too the overthrow of King Louis XVI and the French Revolution. The success of the Revolutionaries gave commoners throughout France the courage to rise up and fight against the nobles who had ruled them for so long.
- WE´RE SICK OF THIS, WE WILL RESOLVE TO VIOLENCE!!!
- It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. In 1789 France, the main food of the commoners was bread. A poor French economy had led to a scarcity of bread and high prices. The March is often credited with forcing the royal court and family to move from the traditional seat of government in Versaillies to Paris. Many of them were women who enmarked on a 12 mile march to Verailles, the residence of the French King Louis XVI and the national constituent Assembly
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