HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Constitution Of France, French Revolution, Tennis Court Oath

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: History
• Course: HST 111
• Professor: Alan Allport

Document Summary

Enlightenment thinks rousseau and voltaire becomes the driving force for ideology forming during the french revolution. 1789-1791 first phase of french revolution: causes: financial causes, social and agrarian, france is struggling financially from seven years war and revolutionary war, 3 estates: clergy, nobility are exempt from taxes. Ends up getting his head chopped off: crowd surges into bastille. Louis xvii is it a revolt? no it"s a revolution : the great fear began with bread riots/crop failures. Fueled by rumors: as a result nobles are killed, national assembly establish a new political order by destroying the old regime. Nobleman cannot hunt game on their land. In eyes of law everyone is equal. Merit instead of birth: national assembly a church becomes a department of the state. The government pays the church and in order for clergyman to keep their job they must be loyal to the nation in which they will get paid. Enlightenment allows us to be religiously tolerant.