POLD70H3 Lecture Notes - Theda Skocpol, Napoleon Iii, Maximilien Robespierre
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Review of french revolution: comparing voluntarist and structuralist approaches to french revolution. Marx: gigantic broom of revolution swept away mediaeval rubbish, seignorial rights, local privileges, municipal and guild monopolies and provincial constitutions . 5 october 2009: review of lecture, review of french revolution, comparing voluntarist and structuralist approaches to french revolution. 3 key components to the theory: weak states dominated by landed gentry. Military made up of mercenaries, serfs and nobility: church. Large sections of french wealth could not be taxed: church/nobility. Expensive wars (7 years war, us independence) bankruptcy. 1787 parlement of paris refuses to register stamp and land tax parl exiled by king. King calls estates-general as part of compromise to raise taxes. 2x for 3rd estate but still vote by order. Battle over voting by order/estate or by head. Refusal by king leads to revolt by third estate tennis court oath. Louis xvi no longer controls military: storming of bastille.
