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French Revolution #2
Old Regime
What does
revolution mean?
Make a name tent with your title on it – peasant, noble, etc.
• Peasants, workers, servants, bourgeoisie give 20% of your income to your local noble (1 livre if you have 4-5 / 2 if you have 9-10)
• Peasants, workers, servants, bourgeoisie give 10% of your income to your local clergy (1 livre for all)
• Peasants, workers, servants, bourgeoisie give 20% of your income to your king (1 livre if you have 4-5 / 2 if you have 9-10)
What does that leave you with?
Are you rich or poor?Happy, sad, angry, frustrated, rich?
Objective for the week:
What caused the
French Revolution
?
France 1789
Old Regime• old way of
life w/strict social classes still in place in France in 1770s
3 Estates (Classes)First Estate: Clergy (Catholic Church):
• Very powerful • Owned 10% of land• Paid 2% in taxes• Approx 1% of population
Second Estate• Nobles: wealthy aristocrats
• Very powerful: controlled peasants
• Owned 20% of land
• Paid almost no taxes• About 2% of population
Third Estate: everyone else!A. Bourgeoisie: middle class,
business owners, often well educated – read Enlightenment philosophes
B. Workers: poor servants & other workers
C. Peasants: poor (usually farmers, 90% of the population)
**paid ½ their income in taxes**
Above everyone else: • King Louis XVI (16th) &
Queen Marie Antoinette: absolute monarch
Palace of Versailles
King & Queen
• Louis – weak leader, not interested in gov
• MA – much more interested in fashion & fun than her people
– They just don’t get it!
Remember….•Which country helped the
Americans win the American Revolutionary War?
•What were Americans fighting for in this war?