What were the changes brought by the Revolution in everyday life of the people of France
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The Revolution and Everyday Life. The Revolutionary government brought forth many changes in the lives of men, women and children in France. It passed a number of laws to establish the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. ... The freedom of press allowed the people to express opposing viewsRevolutionary ideas of equality and liberty transformed the clothes people wore, the language they spoke and books they read.
With the abolition of censorship in 1789 and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1791, freedom of speech became a natural right. This led to the growth of newspapers, books, pamphlets and printed pictures.
Freedom of the press enabled voicing of opinions and counter opinions.
Art flourished in the form of paintings, plays, songs, and festive processions.
Visual and oral art forms enabled even the common man who could not read and write to relate with the ideas of liberty, equality and justice.
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(i) The revolutionary ideas of the French Revolution i.e. equality and liberty changed the clothes people wore, the language they spoke and the books they read. Laws were passed to translate these ideals into everyday practice.
(ii) One important law that came into effect soon after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 was the abolition of censorship. In the Old Regime all written material and cultural activities could be published or performed only after they had been approved by the censors of the king.
(iii) Now the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" proclaimed freedom of speech and expression to be a natural right. As a result, newspapers, pamphlets, books and printed pictures flooded the towns of France from where they travelled rapidly into the countryside. They all described and discussed the events and changes taking place in France.
(iv) Freedom of press also meant that opposing views of events could be expressed. Each side sought to convince the others of its position through the medium of print.
(v) Plays, songs and festive processions attracted large numbers of people. The visual and oral art forms became very popular among the common mass which could not read and write in the 18th century.
(vi) The majority of men and women could now easily understand the ideas ofequality, liberty and justice.
Thus, the everyday life of the French people was deeply affected by the revolution.