Professor Patricia Andrews
World History 2
March 2018
Chapter 16: Representing the French Revolution
- The era reckoned to have lasted from 1789 to 1815 and unfolded as a complex and varied process.
- First few years were relatively modern.
- By 1792 it became more violent.
- The revolution was not a French affair
- All major social upheavals unleash both enormous hopes and fears
- In the beginning of the revolution people believe that France became a constitutional monarchy.
- Three estates that were roles for the king were clergy, nobility, and commoners could live in harmony.
- The Patriotic Snack, Revolution of the Three Estates was a representation of the revolution as it depicts the peaceful interaction with members.
- The hope for harmony was soon seen by people that the revolution was a sharp reveersal of class roles.
- Members in the third estate breaks chains and members of the clergy and nobility recoil in horror.
- The French Revolution witnessed not only serious class conflicts but vigorous attacks on the Catholic Church and Christianity itself.
- The government seized church property to finance France's wars.
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