explain unfair land distribution during the french revolution
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An historical case of land reallocation whose consequences can be traced over time occurred during the French Revolution. On the 2nd of November 1789, in the midst of the early enthusiasm for Revolution and to solve the fiscal crisis of the Monarchy, the French Constituent Assembly passed a
law to confiscate all Church property and to redistribute it by auction. Over the next five years over 700,000 ecclesiastical properties—about 6.5% of French territory—were sold in what one historian termed the ‘most important event of the Revolution’ . In selling the extensive property holdings of the Catholic Church, the Revolutionaries were doing much more than raising funds—they were dismantling one of the fundamental institutions of the feudal era. The destruction of the Church went part and parcel with the abolition of other feudal institutions, such as noble privileges, which were blamed by both contemporaries and subsequent
observers for the stagnation of the Old Regime economy . The
institutions adopted by the Revolution, by contrast, are often credited for much of the economic success both within France and abroad in the nineteenth century
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