The French Revolution
29 Novembro 2021, 15:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The French Revolution.
The causes of the rebellion movements in France:
- The feudal hierarchical structure of society;
- the economic gap between the first and second state (clergy and noblility) in relation to third state (the people - rural and urban labourers + burgoisie);
- bad harvests, therefore scarcity of food.
- the ideas and ideals imported from the American Revolution.
- the gap between the absolutist regime and then-emergent ideologies.
The turmoil of the Bastille (1789): its actual and symbolic meaning.
The new forces in power and violence: the emergence of Girondins and Jacobites as thre parties in dispute.
The regicide.
The writing of The Declaration of the rights of Man and itizen.