HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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promotes principles of democracy and equality
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supported a belief in divine right
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created a system of rigid social classes
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gave more power to the Pope and the Roman Catholic clergy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The storming of the Bastille set a precedent: For the first time in modern history, ordinary men and women, through their collective action in the streets, ensured the creation of a constitutional system of democratic government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Equality, or doing away with privilege, was the most important part of the slogan to the French revolutionists. For equality they were willing to sacrifice their political liberty. They did this when they accepted the rule of Napoleon I. Fraternity, or brotherhood with all men, was also sacrificed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Explanation-Liberty, Equality, Fraternity are the ideals of the French revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -It abolished slavery in France’s colonies. It gave civil rights to Jews and Muslims. It separated Church and State for the first time in Europe. It reformed family law, giving women and men equality in inheritance, secularizing marriage, and permitting divorce for the first time in France.