Religion

Question 1

Where were frustrations among the wealthy bourgeoisie directed against?

Answer 1

Catholic Church

Question 2

What was one of the most powerful institutions in the State?

Answer 2

Catholic Church

Question 3

% of France owned by the Church

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

What was the Church’s revenue in 1789 estimated at?

Answer 4

150 million livres

Question 5

What was 1 livre roughly worth in today’s money?

Answer 5

8p

Question 6

Did the Church pay taxes?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

What did the Church give the treasury?

Answer 7

A very small grant which it determined itself

Question 8

Who was criticising the Catholic Church?

Answer 8

Writers of the French Enlightenment

Question 9

What did the writers of the French Enlightenment accuse the Church of?

Answer 9

Corrupt
Ineffective
More concerned about personal gain that looking after the spiritual needs of parishioners

Question 10

The absence of what gave the writers of the Enlightenment a platform to criticise the Church?

Answer 10

Political debate

Question 11

Examples of 3 philosophes

Answer 11

Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau

Question 12

Philosophes

Answer 12

A group of writers and thinkers who formed the core of the French Enlightenment

Question 13

Who did the philosophes inspire to challenge the ancien regime?

Answer 13

Many of the bourgeoisie

Even some noblemen and clerics