FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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the peasants believed that the Church was going to ban them from religious functions
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the peasants believed that the nobles were plotting against them
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the clergy believed that the peasants were going to take their land
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the nobles believed that the peasants were going to make them leave the country
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Detailed explanation-1: -Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fearful of plots by aristocrats to undermine the budding French Revolution (1789-1799), peasants and townspeople mobilized, attacking manorial houses. The unrest contributed to the passage of the August Decrees, which abolished feudalism in France.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the Great Fear? The Great Fear, called La Grande Peur in French, was a period immediately following the storming of the Bastille. It was a time when members of the nobility began to fear for their lives because of the popular uprisings that were spreading rapidly across France.
Detailed explanation-4: -Causes of the French Revolution Not only were the royal coffers depleted, but several years of poor harvests, drought, cattle disease and skyrocketing bread prices had kindled unrest among peasants and the urban poor.