HIST 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Thermidorian Reaction, Atheism, Estates Of The Realm
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Declaration of the rights of man and citizen. This was a time of great social upheaval; the other developments of this century play into this revolution, between the colonies and the enlightenment. They challenged the old order of monarchs, and install new liberal ideals espoused by enlightenment thinkers. In french history, and increasingly in spain, the phrase used to refer to the political system of doing things prior to the age of revolutions is the old regime . The revolutionary era begins in 1776 with the us. France would become the leading revolutionary nation, establishing a monarchy, then a republic, then a new empire under. The nobility paid very little taxes, but they got to collect them and deal with seigneurial dues. However, the peasantry was paying a lot of taxes, and they couldn"t always afford the taxes. The winter of 1788-89 was very harsh, and the crop yields were horrible.
