general stuff on the ancien

Question 1

system of v ?

Answer 1

system of venality

Question 2

what’s venality hoe

Answer 2

when u buy ur office (job)

Question 3

venality was done in order to augment

Answer 3

royal income

Question 4

by 1700s how many venal offices were there

Answer 4

70,000

it wasnt l’s fault therefore

Question 5

classic ancien regime, 6 areas of france called ? d’? where they cld negotiate ? with the king and pay lump sum

Answer 5

6 pays d’etats cld negotiate tax with the king was a privilege and cld pay lump sum directly to the crown

Question 6

how oculd the 13 parlements criticise actions of king

Answer 6

with an ol

remonstrance

Question 7

but were remonstrances that protesty

Answer 7

nah cos of a lit de justice
meant king cld be like no
and push it thru and force the parliament to pass said edict

Question 8

pop of france by 1780s

how many engaged in some form of agriculture

Answer 8

21 million / 27 million engaged in agriculture

Question 9

the englig..

Answer 9

ENLIGHTENMENT YALL

Question 10

enlightenment in a nutshell taught what

Answer 10

logic

observation truth

Question 11

what traditions did the enlightenment question

Answer 11

religion and monarchy

Question 12

rousseau what abt overthrowing govs

Answer 12

rousseau said that people had a right to overthrow governments that failed to act correctly

Question 13

what 2 words did rousseau stress that became part of the tricolon

Answer 13

liberty
equality

liberte, egalite, fraternite

The first to express this motto was Maximilien Robespierre in his speech “On the organization of the National Guard” (French: Discours sur l’organisation des gardes nationales) on 5 December 1790, article XVI, and disseminated widely throughout France by the popular Societies.

not only did rob use words but the fact they were so well receives shows something

Question 14

but some philosophes defended nobility like

Answer 14

montesquieu defend nobility and privilege

but still questioned strucutre of power of legislature

Question 15

montesquieu seperation of

Answer 15

powers of legislature
and execute (exercising laws) and judiciary
like with the directory

Question 16

voltaire said what abt relig which we see later on

Answer 16

religious toleration

like what nap did for protestants and jews

Question 17

diderot believed wht abt relig which nap seemed to not think

Answer 17

diderot = rejected religion but nap saw it as having communal value

Question 18

great chain of being! what did enlightebmet say

Answer 18

NAH

Question 19

but at same time maybe enlightenment not that effective bcos it was moderate, example of this that didnt work / french didnt want in the end

Answer 19

limited monarch

english model

Question 20

enlightenment rejected ? right

Answer 20

divine right

Question 21

how did the enlightenment spread? like what intellectual meeting points

Answer 21

salons

academies

Question 22

was the enlightenment centralised tho

Answer 22

yeah focused in paris tbh

Question 23

also wasnt enlightenment limited to certain groups

Answer 23

yep somewhat exclusive to the educated

Question 24

was enlightenment limited to the educated

Answer 24

to an extent but it seeped downwards thru society and literacy rates relativelt high t 60% in urban france so

Question 25

what year did france become involved in american revolution

Answer 25

1778

Question 26

amaerican rev lafayette

Answer 26

lafayette personal aid to george washington but did this revolution rlly influence the french? eben lafayette was against it and tried to deliberatiely sabotage an army he led b4 defecting

Question 27

poor harvests between 1785-

Answer 27

1785-9

Question 28

year and month of that WILD HAIL STORM

Answer 28

july 1788 disastrous hailstorm

Question 29

july 1788 hailstorm caused the worst harvest in how many years

Answer 29

40

FORTY YEARS!!!!!

Question 30

so hail storm then worst harvesy what happened next fam

Answer 30

ofc following summer

summer o ‘89 worst bread prices in living memory for many

Question 31

when Louis XVI died in 1715, L’s great grandfather how much debt was there

Answer 31

2 BILLION LIVRES

Question 32

not only did louis’ great grandad louis xiv die and leave 2 billion livres in debt, what was worse abt the solution to this

Answer 32

there was no solution

payments on this debt wwere greater than amount of tax collected annually causing a severe balance of payments crisis

Question 33

by 1783, seven years into L dog’s reign how much debt

Answer 33

3.3 billion livres