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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?