HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Assignat, French Revolutionary Army, Maximilien Robespierre
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26th of august, declaration of the citizen and rights of man. Assignat: brilliant idea, but it wasn"t carefully managed, used as paper money. The national assembly had to give up land. The peasants had no money to engage in this trade. The richer got richer, the poorer got poorer. 12th of july, 1790- civil constitution of the clergy. The wages of the clergy were fixed and paid by the state. All churchman were forbidden to apply to become a pope. The clergy had to take an oath. Looked outside of france for a solution for these radical atheists. A bergois social structure put in place. Despite the claims of equality, people were not equal- divided between active and non-active citizens. Only the active people who paid to be part of the government were only allowed to vote. Victory for the enlightened property owning middle class. Louis felt that he didn"t have enough power in the constitution.
