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Causes and Reactions of The French Revolution.
Title: Causes and Reactions of The French Revolution.
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1394 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Causes and Reactions of The French Revolution.
There were many reasons behind the series of uprisings that became the French revolution. The new bourgeois class was demanding social mobility. No matter how much money these middle class citizens had earned, they were still considered members of the third estate, denying them much power and status. As these literate men of wealth tried to emancipate "themselves from the position of clients of the nobility," they "wrote for the great public," and created a …showed first 75 words of 1394 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1394 total…power, the poor simply wanted to be heard, but both wanted to be more involved and more in control of their own country. All of these factors explain how the lust for social, economic, and political mobility, freedom and equality was the fuel that fed the fire that was the French revolution.
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Feder, Bernard. Viewpoints in World History. New York: American Book Company, 1974.
Tierney, Brian. Great Issues in Western Civilzation. New York: McGraw Hill, 1996
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