HISTORY 2DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Fear, Saint-Domingue, Maximilien Robespierre
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History 1dd3: lecture #3 may 12, 2015. 3 revolutions: intellectual (enlightenment: social contract, citizens, reason, history is progressive as long as reason is applied to society), american revolution (power of president similar to monarchy, separation of , social contract (locke and others), french/haitian revolution. The french revolution part 1: origins and beginning. Individual freedoms: economic freedom, political legitimacy through, constitutional government, elections and legislative supremacy. Main difference with american revolution is that the french revolution was more complicated as it went through number of stages (4 stages) 1st estate clergy (2% of population) 2nd estate nobility (1% of population) 3rd estate commoners/everyone else, everyone that isn"t nobility or clergy (97% of population) Bourgeoisie = urban middle classes (merchants, professionals) (8% of 3rd estate population) Sans-culottes = urban artisans, labourers (10% of 3rd estate population) Peasantry = poor rural farm owners and labourers (82% of. During this time the king moved his army around the country.
