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If I understand you correctly, you are asking what in France's medieval history caused the tumlultuous events of the 1700's, like the French Revolution.

Well, France, more than any other nation in Europe, save Russia, embraced feudalism. Feudalism was a highly defined division of labour where small landowners (nobles) worked the land with the labour of serf (peasants often little better than slaves). The small lords then paid taxes to their overlords (Counts), who in turn paid up their overlords (Dukes) and so on up the King. It was a pyrimidal sturcture. Outside of the structure were the Knights, who were supposed to protect the realm, and who could, in theory, be hired by any noble and the Church, which, in France at least, often had an official structure parallel to the feudal structure.

The feudal structure was necessary at one point, after Charlemagne, to protect the realm and to build it up. However, rather than morphing into something new as needs changed, in France the feudal structure became petrified into a traditional caste system known as Estates. The First Estate was the King & nobles, the Second Estate was the Church, the Third Estate was everyone else. This system did not work for industrialization and France began to fall behind England. This led to wide-spread discontent and eventually to revolt.

2007-01-11 00:58:05 · answer #1 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0 0

France as all of us know it now hardly existed interior the middle an prolonged time. The French Kings quite controlled a particularly small portion of the dominion, and extremely effective lords, which incorporates the English King, have been effectively sovereign rulers over their own territories. The English kings no longer in basic terms had a historic declare to Normandy and Brittany, however the Angevin dynasty claimed an excellent number of south western France. No king needed to do homage to a distinctive king for his distant places territories and this grew to become portion of the quarrel between England and France. The English kings resisted the efforts of the French kings to lead them to subjects in France. The English have been generally greater effective than the French king who ought to no longer constantly place self assurance in his different nobles. The ferocity and ruthlessness with which England waged conflict become portion of the explanation for the hatred. At one time roads have been lined with the impaled bodies of youthful French adult males via fact the English placed down resistance.

2016-12-12 09:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by anirudh 4 · 0 0

that makes no sense.

2007-01-11 00:48:05 · answer #3 · answered by Jessy 4 · 0 0

caused what?

2007-01-11 00:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by FOA 6 · 0 0

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