FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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bourgeoisie
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Great Fear
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National Assembly
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Old Regime
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Old Order In the 1770s, the social and political system of France-the Old Regime-remained in place. Under this system, the people of France were divided into three large social classes, or estates. high offices and exemptions from paying taxes, that were not granted to the members of the third.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ancien Régime was the social and political system fin the Kingdom of France from the 15th until the end of the 18th centuries. It was based on the rigid division of the society into three disproportionate and unequally treated classes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Absolutism was a system of government in which all sovereignty resided with the king, true to Louis XIV’s dictum: “I am the state.” Particularly in France and Germany, the wars of religion had seriously weakened national governments and monarchies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The French society was divided into three classes called Estates. The first estate was clergy (priestly class). The second estate was nobles (rich people). The third estate was the commoners (poor and middle class people).