french+revoltuion+project

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France still practiced feudalism in the 18th century and the nobles enjoyed special privileges it was very difficult for all of us to handle. We also did not have to pay taxes and the people did not have power and freedom. We worked hard and had to pay loads of taxes.The nobles made up the First and Second Estates and the common people (the middle class) for ex. peasants and artisans made up the Third Estate. The nobles could out vote the common people very easily even though the Estates General was always not called by the king, who ruled as an absolute monarch and the common people became discontented with the privileged classes. It was very different how we had to live our lifes back then as now how we live them today.======

**Bankruptcy of the Governemnt**
Louis XIV had spent way too much and his successors did not cut down expenses which i believe was a waste espically to people who had no money and at all which Louis XVI also failed to improve the financial situation. He dismissed ministers who tried to introduce financial reforms and by 1789 the government was bankrupt.

**Outbreak of revolution 1789**
When Louis XVI finally called the Estates General to solve financial difficulties, the Third Estate did not agree with the unfair system of the Estates General. We formed the National Assembly to make a constitution and people were afraid that the king would destroy the National Assembly. They were also not comfortable with the fact that that the king dismissed Necker, the popular Finance Minister. The hungry Parisians like us suffered from bad harvest had also burst out their anger by attacking the Bastille prison for political prisoners. The Fall of Bastille started the French Revolution and It spread out to other parts of France which was the main cause of the French Revolution.

**The First Estate**
The clergy was established as a privileged estate and the French Catholic Church maintained a wide amount od powers it was constituted a state within a state and it had sustained this position for more than 800 years. The clergy was divided into the lower and upper clergy. Members of the lower clergy were usually humble, poorly-paid and overworked village priests. As a group, they resented the wealth and arrogance of the upper clergy. The bishops and abbots filled the ranks of the upper clergy, men who regarded their office as a way of securing a larger income and the landed property that went with it. Most of the upper clergy sold their offices to subordinates, kept the revenue, and lived in Paris or at the seat of royal government. The two estates accounted 500,000 individuals all together. media type="custom" key="7138247"