MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the political and social system of medieval France
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the ancient origins of French kingship
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the name the Revolutionaries used for the old system
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the harsh rules of the last bad French king
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ancien régime, or “old order, ” refers to the social and political order that existed in France from the late Middle Ages until the French Revolution. Under this system, all men were subjects of the king of France. National citizenship did not exist in France.
Detailed explanation-2: -ancien régime, (French: “old order”) Political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution. Under the regime, everyone was a subject of the king of France as well as a member of an estate and province.
Detailed explanation-3: -The politics of France take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an “indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic".
Detailed explanation-4: -The best-known system is a three-estate system of the French Ancien Régime used until the French Revolution (1789–1799). This system was made up of clergy (the First Estate), nobility (the Second Estate), and commoners (the Third Estate).
Detailed explanation-5: -French society comprised three Estates, the aristocracy, the clergy and the bourgeoisie and working classes, over which the King had absolute sovereignty.