HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Intendants
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Bourgeoisie
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Emigres
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Conscription
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Detailed explanation-1: -émigré, any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government, seeking foreign help in their goal of restoring the old regime.
Detailed explanation-2: -If it remains true that the first émigrés were nobles or clerics who decided to leave France immediately because they could not accept the Revolution’s fundamental principles, the majority of émigrés left only after 1792, after the outbreak of the French civil war.
Detailed explanation-3: -1. The National Assembly decrees that hereditary nobility is forever abolished. Consequently, the titles of Prince, Duke, Count, Marquis, Viscount, Vidame, Baron, Knight, Lord, Squire, Noble, and all other similar titles shall neither be accepted by, nor bestowed upon, anyone whomsoever. 2.