MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Aristocrats were being murdered & guillotined.
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the royal family fled from Paris
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peasants rioted and fled from what they thought was a nobles’ plot to kill them.
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Everyone was afraid of the Black Death, a plague in Europe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs, on July 14, 1789.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result of the “Great Fear", the National Assembly, in an effort to appease the peasants and forestall further rural disorders, on 4 August 1789, formally abolished the “feudal regime", including seigneurial rights. This led in effect to a general unrest among the nobility of France.
Detailed explanation-4: -Known as the Great Fear (la Grande peur), the agrarian insurrection hastened the growing exodus of nobles from France and inspired the National Constituent Assembly to abolish feudalism on August 4, 1789, signing what historian Georges Lefebvre later called the “death certificate of the old order.”
Detailed explanation-5: -What caused French peasants to revolt against nobles? The terrible famine triggered the peasants to revolt. They were starving and unemployed. The peasants were angered and rallied against the nobles.