Tag: Estates General

• The French Revolution: The Estates General

  A little over a year ago, I posted what has become one of my most popular posts on this blog. It was a post about the peasantry in the French Revolution. Riveting stuff, right! Well, I suppose it’s all the students taking a course on the French Revolution that google “peasants, French Revolution” that brings…

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  August 12, 2014

  French Revolution, History & Culture

  1789, Bastille, bourgeoisie in French Revolution, Estates General, france, King Louis IV

• Taxes, Tithing, and Rumors: The Peasantry in the French Revolution

  Complaints of an unfair tax system. Cries of inequality and a widening income gap. Rumors of impending doom. No, we are not talking about 2013. These were the themes which put a twist in the French Revolution of 1789. Here’s a short essay I wrote on the subject a while back.  As the French bourgeoisie…

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  July 30, 2013

  French Revolution, History & Culture

  Bastille, Estates General, French peasant revolt, French Revolution, Peasants in French Revolution, tax system under French Monarchy, the Great Fear, the Third Estate