general stuff on the ancien Flashcards
system of v ?
system of venality
what’s venality hoe
when u buy ur office (job)
venality was done in order to augment
royal income
by 1700s how many venal offices were there
70,000
it wasnt l’s fault therefore
classic ancien regime, 6 areas of france called ? d’? where they cld negotiate ? with the king and pay lump sum
6 pays d’etats cld negotiate tax with the king was a privilege and cld pay lump sum directly to the crown
how oculd the 13 parlements criticise actions of king
with an ol
remonstrance
but were remonstrances that protesty
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
pop of france by 1780s
how many engaged in some form of agriculture
21 million / 27 million engaged in agriculture
the englig..
ENLIGHTENMENT YALL
enlightenment in a nutshell taught what
logic
observation truth
what traditions did the enlightenment question
religion and monarchy
rousseau what abt overthrowing govs
rousseau said that people had a right to overthrow governments that failed to act correctly
what 2 words did rousseau stress that became part of the tricolon
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
but some philosophes defended nobility like
montesquieu defend nobility and privilege
but still questioned strucutre of power of legislature
montesquieu seperation of
powers of legislature
and execute (exercising laws) and judiciary
like with the directory
voltaire said what abt relig which we see later on
religious toleration
like what nap did for protestants and jews
diderot believed wht abt relig which nap seemed to not think
diderot = rejected religion but nap saw it as having communal value
great chain of being! what did enlightebmet say
NAH
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
limited monarch
english model
enlightenment rejected ? right
divine right
how did the enlightenment spread? like what intellectual meeting points
salons
academies
was the enlightenment centralised tho
yeah focused in paris tbh
also wasnt enlightenment limited to certain groups
yep somewhat exclusive to the educated
was enlightenment limited to the educated
to an extent but it seeped downwards thru society and literacy rates relativelt high t 60% in urban france so
what year did france become involved in american revolution
1778
amaerican rev lafayette
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
poor harvests between 1785-
1785-9
year and month of that WILD HAIL STORM
july 1788 disastrous hailstorm
july 1788 hailstorm caused the worst harvest in how many years
40
FORTY YEARS!!!!!
so hail storm then worst harvesy what happened next fam
ofc following summer
summer o ‘89 worst bread prices in living memory for many
when Louis XVI died in 1715, L’s great grandfather how much debt was there
2 BILLION LIVRES
not only did louis’ great grandad louis xiv die and leave 2 billion livres in debt, what was worse abt the solution to this
there was no solution
payments on this debt wwere greater than amount of tax collected annually causing a severe balance of payments crisis
by 1783, seven years into L dog’s reign how much debt
3.3 billion livres
