....during the French Revolution. Yes, Marie Antoinette and Louis had their heads chopped off. Could some of the royals then cared for their people in their need? How come they did not help the working class so that they would not rise against them?
2006-09-30 03:30:26 · 8 answers · asked by Sarah* 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Of course they cared... but french revolution was not only a popular revolution. It was also (and, let's be honest, mostly) a middle-class revolution fighting to get the same privileges as the aristocrats (and they used the popular disastrous situation of the time to get it).
Louis XVI couldn't manage with the economic break down and the consecutive years of bad harvests.
When the revolution was still a riot, one of Louis XVI's military counselors asked him if he wanted to send the army (it was, a posteriori, the only chance for him to avoid the revolution and then his own death, 4 years later). He answered that it was out of question to have one drop of his subjects'blood spilled.
I think he was more human than many great Kings before him who sent people to wars to extend or defend the boarders but he was certainly weaker.
2006-09-30 17:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by boule de gomme 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were actually, many political and socioeconomic causes for the French Revolution. To some extend the old order succumbed to its own rigidity, in the face of a changing world. The French Royal family, were not the monsters that the revolutionaries proclaimed they were. They were no different from the other monarchs, of their times and they all treated the commoners with indifference. But with all the changes in France at this time, it was needed a competent King to keep control. And Louis XVI was not.
2006-09-30 15:23:15 · answer #2 · answered by Sakura ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Monarchs have never cared for commoners. They fake concern when they have no option. If you really think that the English Royal family really cares about the man in the street you are living the delusion that they have carefully crafted.
2006-09-30 19:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Marie was married very young it was an arranged marriage and she had to sole purpose of providing children ,she was not educated and was protected so she knew nothing about the people her husband was also young and had been ruled by is grandfather and also knew nothing ,IT was his job to find out but he didn't ?
2006-10-01 06:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by stephanie n 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they didn't.. resulting in the history you now are taught about the French revolution
2006-09-30 10:37:10 · answer #5 · answered by renclrk 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ask the french
2006-09-30 11:24:56 · answer #6 · answered by businessman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry to tell ya this, but the french dont care about anyone but themselves, they think here so much better then everyone else that they all turn there noses up..the spoilt and rude..if a french is got any amount a good furtune, they they will spit on you to get your money.. sad but true fact..
2006-09-30 10:41:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Do any present day ones?
2006-09-30 10:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by dot&carryone. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋