what is meant by french revolution?

Answer 1

There is alot to say about the French Revolution - here is the intro to the wikipedia article on it:

The French Revolution (1789-1799) 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 promoted democracy or overthrew oppressive governments.

I would suggest you read the rest of the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution to learn more.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

French Revolution, cataclysmic political and social upheaval, extending from 1789 to 1799. The Revolution resulted, among other things, in the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy in France and in the establishment of the First Republic. It was generated by a complex series of causes, the most important of which were the inability of the ruling classes of nobility, clergy, and bourgeoisie to come to grips with the problems of state, the indecisive nature of the monarch, extortionate taxation of the peasantry, impoverishment of the workers, the intellectual ferment of the Age of Enlightenment, and the example of the American War of Independence. Recent theories tend to downplay the social class struggle and emphasize political, cultural, ideological, and personality factors in the advent and unfolding of the conflict. The Revolution itself produced an equally vast set of consequences. This article deals mainly with highlights of the Revolutionary period.

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Answer 3

The French Revolution (1789-1799) 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 promoted democracy or overthrew oppressive governments.

Causes of the French Revolution

Historians disagree about the political and socioeconomic nature of the 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. (a recent study of El Niño patterns suggests that the poor crop yields of 1788-89 in Europe resulted from an unusually strong El-Niño effect between 1789-93.[1])
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.

Answer 4

revolution which took in france on 14th july 1789 with the storming of bastille prison in calle d french revolution.
7 political prisoners were released and commandert of bastille murdered.

this was the beginning of the chain of revolutin all over europe

Answer 5

Your question is purely political science,ask your teacher if you are in school or ask your professor or lecturer if you are in a university or college respectively.
Or else just buy a book titled Political Theory of any writer it wil cost you under rupees 100/-.

Answer 6

political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789.

Answer 7

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution -
www.chnm.gmu.edu/revolution -
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html -
www.newadvent.org/cathen/13009a.htm -
www.historychannel.com/frenchrevolution -
www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture12a.html -
www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0819666.html -
encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557826/French_Revolution.htm
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035357/French-Revolution - 52k 7/revolution/default.shtml -

Answer 8

church has nothing to do with politics.