Unit 4 AOS1 French Revolution

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Louis XVI (16th) 

  • Awkward, clumsy but had a good heart, not a great person to be a leader, disliked leading France  

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Lettre de cashet

The king can arrest anyone

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First estate

  • 170,000 ppl (0.6%),  

  • highest position in society,  

  • upper clergy 

  • Lower clergy  

  • Clergy people don't pay taxes (except gst and that)  

  • Owned 10-15% of the land 

  • Church people

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Second estate

  • Nobles of the sword 

  • Nobles of the robe 

  • 0.4% of population 

  • Owned 20-30% of land 

  • Privileges – right to wear a sword, display coat of arms  

  • Can see them from having a sword and being fancy dressed  

  • Nobles

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Third estate

  • Over 25 million (99% of population) 

  • 80% peasants 

  • 22 million lived in countryside 

  • Included very wealthy as well very poor 

  • Bourgeois 

  • Merchants/Artisans  

  • Everyone else

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Taxation systems

  • Direct taxes 

  • Indirect taxes 

  • Inefficient and corruption 

  • Heavy burden on the third estate, especially peasants  

  • Inequality 

  • Tax collections pocketed some 

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Poverty

  • Inflation has risen 3x faster then wages

  • 80% of population were peasants