Question

briefly explain the French revolution.

Answer 1

French Revolution, also called revolution of 1789, the revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799.Hence the conventional term "Revolution of 1787", denoting the end of the ancienrégime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.

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Answer 2

The “Ancien Régime” (Old Regime) under the Bourbon kings had ruined France’s economy. There was widespread hunger. The people were starving and malnourished. Louis XV had practically bankrupted the country due to the many wars (such as the Seven Years War, etc.) fought under his reign. Also, the French had greatly helped the Americans in their revolution in 1776, which was expensive. It was the age of Enlightenment, so when the French people saw what happened in America, they thought that they, too, could throw off their monarch. The famous Frenchman Lafayette, in fact, was a great help to the Americans in their own revolution, and he brought back some of the revolutionary ideas to France.

The French people had already been fomenting. They were tired of monarchs like Louis XVI and his frivolous wife, Marie Antoinette, wasting money on parties and jewels and clothing, while the people were starving. Louis XVI even tried to raise money by taxing the land of the nobles and the clergy. That had never been done before. So, not only the poor people were against the king, but the other “estates” as well (nobility and clergy). Republicanism soon became widespread. There were revolts everywhere. Finally, in 1789, a French mob stormed a military prison in Paris, the Bastille. The French then passed their own Declaration of Independence, called “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.” Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette tried to escape, but they were apprehended, brought back to Paris, and eventually sent to the guillotine. A republic was declared in 1792 and Louis was executed in 1793.