HIST 1003 Chapter : Week Five The French Revolution
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Enlightenment ideas, national debt due to france trying to get revenge on england for the seven year"s war, hunger & everyone being annoyed with louis xvi living so lavishly. Influences on the estates general, national assembly and. *how did the enlightenment ideas influence the revolution? constitution. *what are the legacies of the french revolution. Jacobins: political party that believes in the revolution at all costs, very radical and democratic. Invented the term political left" because of where they sat in the parliament. Nation assembly: robespierre: leader of the jacobins and promotes a radical revolution, leader of the committee of public safety(police). Robespierre and the committee of public safety kill around 16,000 people with the guillotine from trying to stop the counter- revolution. Tried to control the economy with the general. Trying to be a command economy instead of a free market.
