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1780s France Financial Crisis and its Repercussions
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 11, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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two major political events that affected France leading up to the French Revolution
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1763: After French and War, French expelled from North America and being reduced to its key colonies in the
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1776: France aided America in the War of Independence from Britain
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its actions in 1781 were crucial to the American colonists because the French navy effectively blockaded Bay where major British forces were and forced their surrender
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victory at last against its British rivals has enormous
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the cost of the war per year was about the revenue that the French government would take in taxes
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creates a major financial crisis for the French monarchy
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Louis XVI takes action
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1787 Meeting of the Assembly of
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failed: don't want to pay more takes on property, for instance
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1787 Parliament of Paris refuses to register reforms
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17888 fails to reduce power of parliament
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nobles were of the opinion that Louis XVI was trying to ancient rights
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1788: Journée des in Grenoble
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royal troops marching to the city are pelted by tiles
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Louis XVI decides that trying to force the noble courts to reform is not going to work
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therefore, Louis calls a meeting of the Estates
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a body that hasn't met in years, a meeting of the three orders: clergy, nobility, and commons
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it is only an body, but a move that electrifies public opinion
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1788: Louis XVI decrees that representatives for the Third Estate will be that of the other two estates
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focuses public debate on this question
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when they gather, will the three estates meet individually or
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whether or not there will be one common assembly or not, electrifies opinion
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it's not about the anymore, "it has become a war between the third estate and the other two orders"
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rural cultures
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a world that is oral rather than written
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early 1789:
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the king makes it plain:
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every community is to draw up a "cahiers de " (list of grievances)
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representatives will take these to Versailles to inform the king
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for the first time in history, common people are not only allowed to voice their opinion, but they were to do so
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example: Erceville,
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the people of Erceville, or at least the male heads of household gather in a meeting place near the church and write down, or at least have a man write down, their grievances
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mostly grievances about
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they want the Estates General to become a feature of public life in France
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March 1789
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elections of the Estates General take place
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these gatherings are affairs
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many peasants assumed and believed that because the king asked them to send him their grievances, that he was going to on them
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Arthur Young (1741-1820) English writer on agriculture, economics, and social statistics, known mostly for traveling throughout France around the start of the French Revolution describing the condition of the people and the conduct of public affairs
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