French Revolution DBQ

The French Revolution lasted for 11 years and was a battle for change. Leadership went from a weak monarchy, to a bloody dictator, back to a monarch. Because France was in three estates, there was a non-taxed land owning clergy, a supposed-to-be taxed land owning nobility, and full-taxed land owning commoners. Many commoners were worked to the point of death, arrested on the king’s whims, and starving to feed the other estates. As leadership changed King Louis XVI lost his power to Robespierre, and then a series of leaders, to the impacting Napoleon Bonaparte. When the Revolution was beginning the French monarchy was having financial difficulties, guiding France into many crises that are “to early to tell””(Zhou Enlai) if they will ever be finished..
Although Louis XVI was disbursing more than half of the federal budget on the national arrears, the government was acquiring less than 50% of the taxes it instituted. The social scales of France also played a major part in commencing the Revolution. Since the clergy was ripostable only to God , they did not pay taxes, but collected many tithes and owned 10% of the land.(Doc 2) The clergy was among the richest of classes while doing nothing to benefit France, besides religion.. Another class was the nobility, which was intended to be taxed, instead taxed their peasantry, while living on 25% of the land, worked by...... the peasantry.(Doc 2)Because the nobles did not pay their taxes, but gathered them from the third estate, they got wealthy and impoverished the only working class. This estate formed by everyone besides the clergy and nobility, suffered from paying 100% of the government taxation, owning and working 65% of the land, and not being recompensed for yield taken by nobles....

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...ences that all of Europe saw, for there were many changes, one of which was the vision of revolution as part of unabridged political observance. Many were impressed by the accomplishments, rather than its catastrophes.
When the revolutionary psyche died down, many viewed the intentions as astonishing. What happened prior to the revolution of the allocated classifications, was a ancien regime, to say the least. Citizens were regarded with distaste and contempt. Leaders came and went, as the feelings of the population transfigured. Napoleon not only ameliorated France, but also Italy, even Naples, as seen in the name. Revolution waxed into the complete planet way of existence, and was never the indistinguished ideal as before. France was a different take on Revolution, on how to reform a monarchical government, while changing the whole world, all within 11 years.