FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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defeat in and humiliation of the Franco-Prussian War
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influence of and privileges granted to the First and Second Estates
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increasing confrontations between Catholics and Protestants
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conflict between competing branches of the French royal family
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Detailed explanation-1: -The upheaval was caused by disgust with the French aristocracy and the economic policies of King Louis XVI, who met his death by guillotine, as did his wife Marie Antoinette.
Detailed explanation-2: -Both the First Estate and Second Estate did not want anything to change in France unless there was chance they could gain more political power.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this regard, the French Revolution brought such influential themes as constitutionalism, parliamentarianism, individual liberty, legal equality, and the sense of ethnic nationalism.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first and second estate were exempted from paying taxes. The taxes were collected by both the church and the state in the form of taille and tites.