supa quiz ch8
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Super Quiz Ch.8
What was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
By
Morris Maraya
The Old Regime
Assumed men unequal
Inequality a good thing
Liberty meant privilege
The Enlightenment challenged those assumptions
It took revolutionary violence to end the old Regime
The Rumor
A serious rumor broke out that a royal kidnapped several village children for bloodbaths
A riot ensued
Such riots are known as Popular Emotions
(Whisper Whisper)
Head Pikes
An official named Foulon was lynched due to soaring bread prices and rumors about plots to starve the poor
Crowd severed his head and paraded it on a pike throughout town
Like Father like Son
Another band of rioters seized Foulons son Bertier and made him march right besides his father, while chanting Kiss Papa, Kiss Papa
Then they murdered him and ripped out his heart
That is how traitors are punished
The Terror
By current standards, it is considered not that devastating
About 17,000 deaths
3/4ths of the guillotined were rebels
85 percent of them were commoners
During this ere, the word aristocrat could be applied to anyone deemed an enemy of the people
The Revolution
The Old Regime would not die peacefully and the new order could not survive without destroying the counterrevolution
After the religious schism of 1791 and the war of 1792, any opposition could be made to look like treason
Consequences
The consequences of revolutionary violence includes; clearing the way for redesigning and rebuilding, striking down institutions from the Old Regime, and the sense of boundless possibilities(Possibilism)
Frats
Lamourette proposed to the National Assembly that all their troubles arose from factionalism
They needed more fraternity
As the strangest in the trinity of revolutionary values, it was very popular in France.
Fin