01:506:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Manorialism, Charles Alexandre De Calonne, Bakery
13 Mar 2018
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France replaced the old regime" with modern society," and at its extreme phase it became very radical, so much so that all later revolutionary movements have looked back to it as a predecessor to themselves. the. French revolution occurred in the most advanced country of the day, the center of the enlightenment. It was the most powerful, wealthy nation in europe. It had the largest population (24 m) under one government. Paris was smaller than london, but double vienna and amsterdam. Europeans took their ideas from france, and the. Revolution was to profoundly affect them: backgrounds pp. 351-354: the old regime: the three estates, legally an aristocratic, even feudal society; everyone belonged to an estate or order of society. The clergy was the first estate; the nobility the second estate; and everyone else, from the wealthiest businessman to the poorest peasant or city worker, was the third estate.
