HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Great Fear, Tennis Court Oath, Maximilien Robespierre
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***for the final exam essays, you should write 5 pages min. If you really want to help your grade, pull in primary sources. The third estate starts becoming more influential (rise of the middle. Bread: price of bread determines how society is at a snapshot. The great fear: and there wasn"t crop failure causing the bread shortage. War (debt: the french funded the american revolution, france is broke, especially when it comes to money, the king doesn"t have power. This is why he called the estate"s general for the first time in almost 200 years he wanted the estate"s general to ok a tax hike: the third estate are the only ones that pay taxes. Estate"s general is called to raise taxes, but it"s an opportunity (for the. Primary sources: madame stael"s account of france (de stael on the ancien. Regime: sieyas, declaration of the rights of man, robespierre. Declaration of the right"s of man and citizen.
