French bourgeois revolution erupted out of nowhere.The spark for the fire it served following the event.
At the end of the 80s of the 18th century, France was suffering the effects of natural disasters, lasting from 1785 to 1789: hail destroyed crops, drought, cold winters.Sharply increased prices of most essential food.In addition, France signed with Britain in 1786, unfavorable for domestic producers of wool and cotton trade agreement to reduce the tax on the importation of goods of this type.Unemployment began to flourish.
government, beware of bankruptcy, found a way out of the imposition of tax on the nobility and clergy.Naturally, the notables - representatives of high society - were outraged by this decision and for the first time showed disobedience to the king.The king, in turn, had to collect the supreme body - the States-General.But the traditional vote on the mills did not take place, as the representatives of the third camp refused to vote for the old model, and proclaimed himself, and indignation of the clergy and nobility by the National Assembly.The guards tried to disperse the deputies of the king, but they said that disperse only after their demands are met.The king ordered to leave them alone, but after a few days at his command the troops entered Paris.
National Assembly, considering their aim to establish in the country a new political regime, the ninth in July 1789 declared itself the Constituent Assembly.Three days later anxiety in the capital grew into an armed uprising.It began with an attempt to capture the rebels with weapons warehouse, which was located in an old, long acting Bastille.The negotiations came to nothing lead, so the fortress stormed July 14th.This is the day, when the French Revolution of 1789.
Events in Paris became an example for other cities.The revolutionaries took full power into its hands.They formed their bodies, let its laws and decrees.Now you have a new government and an armed force - the National Guard.It joined the revolt and the peasants, who call for the destruction of the feudal lords have taken too literally and ceased to pay anything.However, the Constituent Assembly, which embody the new government, was supposed to provide answers to all the questions put to the people of the French bourgeois revolution.
In the early years of some of the reforms it has carried out concerning many aspects of social life.
primarily French bourgeois revolution has led to economic changes in the state and society:
- the confiscation of church lands and declaring their property of the nation, as well as the sale of the property.This was done in order to counter the financial crisis and the weakening of the power of the church;
- the elimination of the shops, the abolition of government regulation of production;
- the abolition of internal taxes and other restrictions, which are in fact only hampered the development of trade and industry.
administrative and social reforms, which resulted in a French bourgeois revolution is:
- abolition of inheritance of titles of nobility and dividing by the mills;
- establishment of state control over the church;
- the abolition of the old system and the administrative division of the country's 83 departments.
But perhaps the most important result, which resulted in the French Revolution - is the adoption by the Constituent Assembly "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen", proclaimed the people free and have equal rights from birth, and agrarian decrees.They were the beginning of a new constitution, to completely change the socio-political system in France.
