FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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All of the estates in French society believed the government should be changed.
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Members of the First Estate believed those in the Second Estate should have greater rights and privileges.
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Members of the Second Estate demanded significant social and financial reform.
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Members of the Third Estate were dissatisfied with social and economic inequality.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did France’s social divisions in the late 1700s contribute to the French Revolution? Members of the Third Estate were dissatisfied with social and economic inequality. Why was the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, an important event in the French Revolution? It challenged the king’s authority.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did France’s social divisions in the late 1700’s contribute to the revolution? The social divisions contributed to the revolution because people wanted equality. The social divisions separated each other into different classes, along with that, not everyone was equal. Each social class came with different rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -The middle class emerged as the immediate winners of the revolution as they broke down the barriers of the estate system through political reformation. However, the revolt of the peasants and urban working class perpetuated the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Members of the Third Estate were dissatisfied with life under the Old Regime because they had to pay high taxes and had little political power. At the same time, they were not entitled to any privileges held by the Second and First Estate.
Detailed explanation-5: -French society was divided into three classes known as Estates with the First Estate being the clergy, the Second Estate being the nobility and the Third Estate, which included the rest of the society consisting of peasants and the middle class merchants and professionals.