FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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The power of the monarchy was limited
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Gaining positions was now based on education not birth
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Taxation was fairer
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Feudalism was abolished
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Detailed explanation-1: -All particular privileges given to certain provinces, district, cities, cantons and communes, financial or otherwise, were abolished because under the new rules, every part of France was equal. All citizens, no matter what class or birth he might be, were eligible for any office in civil and military service.
Detailed explanation-2: -The abolition of the feudal system took place during the famous night session of the National Assembly on August 4th 1789. It was reportedly prompted by the reading of a report on the misery and disorder which prevailed in the provinces.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie plays a heroic role by revolutionizing industry and modernizing society. However, it also seeks to monopolize the benefits of this modernization by exploiting the propertyless proletariat and thereby creating revolutionary tensions.
Detailed explanation-4: -The original meaning of bourgeois is from the French word bourg, which means a small market town or walled settlement. Back in the Middle Ages, people who lived in these country towns were known as the bourgeois. Since town folk were one economic step up from farming peasants, the bourgeois were the first middle-class.