EUR200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Bourgeoisie, Philosophes
Document Summary
World is totally transformed by french evolutionary wars. The most significant thing to come out of the wars was the french system of government (modern nationalism) Many states that are already formed, many unformed states, many unformed nations. French society is a pyramid, key component of pyramidal society is all relationships are vertical, absence of horizontal relationships. Estate system: clergy one of the biggest land owners, religious power: 130,000 people 0. 5, nobility royal class: 400,000 people 1. 5, peasants 80% (40% are landless) bourgeoisie middle class. Before 1789 there is discontent with the king because france in a financial collapse, the taxation system, the role of the enlightenment. French salon culture (sponsored by nobility) philosophes are the people in the salon culture. (king is at the top of pyramid system) Power is moving from the kind to the people. 1792-1793 fall of monarchy, rise of republicanism, king tries to flee and is seen as supporter of absolutist regime, is executed.
