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| What did philosophes target? |
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| Church for reform, idleness of clergy, Church interference for politics, intolerance of dissent. |
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| What were the three social classes? |
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| The clergy, nobles and the third estate. |
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| What happened to the nobles during the revolution? |
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| Were in a pinch because they had little income and prices of things around them were rising, had a hard time trying to maintain their statuses: feared losing their privileges, like not having to pay taxes |
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| Who were in the bourgeoisie? |
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| prosperous bankers, merchants, and manufacturers: officials who staffed royal bureaucracy, etc. |
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| financial wizard that Louis the 16th chose as his advisor: had good ideas, wanted to tax first and second class but those ppl didn't like it and forced Necker to leave. |
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| notebooks listing the three estates grievances: many wanted reforms |
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| rumors that villages and towns were being attacked by troops (government) |
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| Declaration of the rights of man |
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| gov. exists to protect the right of the ppl; all male citizens equal before the law; freedom of religion and taxes according to how much you can afford; "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" |
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| ended papal authority over the French Church and dissolved convents and monasteries: bishops and priests refused to accept it |
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| limited monarchy in place of absolute monarchy: new legislative assembly: power to make laws, collect taxes, and decide on issues of war and peace |
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| nobles, clergy, and others who had fled France |
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| Marie Antionette's brother: monarch would threaten to intervene to protect Marie and Louis's throne: France saw it as an act of war |
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| working class men and woman who pushed the revolution into more radical action |
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| like Rousseau's ideas (ppl naturally good and corrupted by their rulers): religious toleration and wanted to demolish slavery: popular among sans culottes |
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| June 18, 1815: in town of Waterloo, Belgium France and Prussia fought France, and Napoleon lost -> downfall of Napoleon because he was forced to abdicate and was exiled to St Helena in the SOuth Atlantic, did not return like last time |
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| agreement to establish balance of power and protect the system of monarchy between all the countries: ringed France with strong countries around it |
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| Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria agreed to use their power to maintain balance of power and suppress revolutionary uprisings |
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