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define french revolution in brief

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Answered by daiem
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french revolution was an uprising of french people aganist auto cracy and aristocrasy
Answered by Aditya2321
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•The French revolution in France was not only a change in the History of France but it was a great ideal to the countries struggling for democracy.
•France was the first country to have a written constitution but this achievement of people of France of bringing Democracy in France had a great history behind this.
•In 18th CE French society was divided among 3 estates- Nobels, Clergy and 3rd estate, in which Nobles were the people who hold high ranking in the administration and enjoyed certain privileges by birth, Clergy were the people of Church who also enjoyed feudal privileges and 3rd estate comprises peasants and merchants who hold 95% of the population of France and were the only people who pay taxes.
•Louis XVI ascended the throne France in 1789 and married Austrian Prince Marie Antoniette a beautiful but empty headed wife. After ascending the throne he found an empty treasury so he kept on increasing taxes in France.
•The main cause of France was the crop failure in 1789. The crop failed in France in 1789 and the prices rise phenomenally high and Louis XVI instead of decreasing he increased the taxes.
•Louis XVI called a National assembly on 14 July 1789 to increase the taxes in France and each estate had 1 vote but the 3rd estate demand that each person must have one vote but King disagreed to them and then 3rd estate form National Assembly and frame the Constitution of France under Abbe Sieyas and took Tennis court oath ' Never to disperse and to meet again until the framing of constitution'.
Rumours spread on that day that king ordered his troops to open fire upon the citizens due to which National Assembly stormed the Bastille and after which Louis XVI became the king only in name
•In 1792 constitution of France framed and it became Constitutional monarchy and later Republic and then democracy. Many reforms made after that including withe the effect of ideas of Napoleon which gave moral support to the whole world.


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