HTST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Monarchy, August Decrees, Brunswick Manifesto
19 Oct 2018
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Louis xvi (r. 1774-1793) attempts to reform state on enlightenment ideals; old regime (before: france conditioned by hierarchy, feudal structure based on privilege (private law) Second estate nobility: third estate everyone else, based on divine right of kings, people liked the king his wife, not so much (marie antoinette, 14 when married, don"t consummate marriage for. ), gets risky surgery: marie antoinette bears 4 children, rumours suggest marie. Antoinette took male & female lover: promotion based on merit or ascription, merit: based on who can do the job best, ascription: your birth family determines your destiny, about whom you know, not what you know. June 17 3rd estate declares they represent nation, claim sovereignty over the state: assume the burden of national debt & tax collection. June 20 tennis court oath: create the national assembly & pledge not to disband until france has new constitution. Storming the bastille & the "great fear: marquis de lafayette** key figure in national assembly.
