FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Puritan Revolution
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Hundred Years War
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French Revolution
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signing of the Magna Carta
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Detailed explanation-1: -The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Estates-General of 1789 was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. Summoned by King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to deal with financial and societal crises, it ended with the Third Estate breaking from royal authority and forming a National Assembly.
Detailed explanation-3: -When was the Estates-General created? The first Estates-General met on April 10, 1302, to discuss a conflict between French King Philip IV and Pope Boniface VIII.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France’s financial problems. It ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.