How did the French Revolution effect France and Europe?

Answer 1

The French Revolution (1789–1799/1804) was a vital period in the history of France and Europe as a whole. During this time, democracy replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the country's Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo a radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup d'état, the Revolution is widely seen as a major turning point in the history of Western democracy — from the age of absolutism and aristocracy, to the age of the citizenry as the dominant political force.

The slogan of the French Revolution was "Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort!" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death!"). This slogan outlived the revolution, later becoming the rallying cry of activists, both militant and non-violent, who promote democracy or overthrow oppressive governments.

Historians disagree about the political and socioeconomic nature of the French Revolution. One interpretation is that the old aristocratic order of the Ancien Régime succumbed to the ambitions of a rising bourgeoisie, infected with the ideas of the Enlightenment, and allied with aggrieved peasants and wage-earners in the towns, particularly Paris and Lyons. Another interpretation sees various aristocratic and bourgeois attempts at political and economic reform spinning out of control and coinciding with popular movements of the new wage-earning classes and the provincial peasantry, but see any alliance between classes as contingent and incidental.

However, adherents of both models identify many of the same features of the Ancien Régime as being among the causes of the revolution. On the one hand there are the economic factors:

A poor economic situation and an unmanageable national debt, both caused and exacerbated by the burden of a grossly inequitable system of taxation, the massive spending of Louis XVI and the many wars of the 18th century
High unemployment and high bread prices causing more money to be spent on food and less in other areas of the economy
Food scarcity in the months immediately before the revolution
On the other hand, there were social and political factors, many of them involving resentments and aspirations given focus by the rise of Enlightenment ideals:

Resentment of royal absolutism
A resentment of noble privilege and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes
Resentment of manorialism (seigneurialism) by peasants, wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie
Resentment of clerical privilege (anti-clericalism) and aspirations for freedom of religion
Aspirations for liberty and (especially as the revolution progressed) republicanism
Finally, perhaps above all, was the almost total failure of Louis XVI to deal effectively with any of these problems.


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Answer 2

ok.. what type of consecuences are you expecting?
first of all the mentality in the world change, cause for the first time we were considerated (human beings) as equals, with the right of freedom just because and not only cause of Gods will.
The main effect in France its that the revolutionaries send their kings to the death sentence and destroy their way of goverment creating a new country.
Also very important thing, the Human Rights were first consierated and established for all men kind (for women it took a little longer.. yes silly but.. it did)
Europe followed their ideas and so did America (the continent), and suddenly everyone wanted their independence from Spain and England. The century of the Ilumination started, with fresh ideas in philosophy, literature, art, humanism, politics... it was a fresh start with new hopes for a more human and better world; thats why this era its also called as Modernism. We are so called post modernism cause all this ideas failed after the two World Wars and Europe was in the biggest depression and lost all hope.

Answer 3

a million. It divorced the royals from the church as a ruling %.. 2. The Committee handed regulations that each and each and every one little ones inherited in a French farm property. Germany exceeded France in inhabitants interior 2 generations.

Answer 4

it changed everything. it smashed monarchy to the ground in france .and since napoleon took over a big part of europe, many changes werde done in that scale, for example the duty of going to the army. there were laws made for that. and laws changed everywhere, also in occupied germany for example. sorry for my strange expressions. come from abroad. bye.