The Fall of the Old Order of France

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This paper describes the social, political and economic conditions that brought about the French Revolution (1789 - 1799) and the corresponding consequences of the Revolution. The paper explains that the unrest between the classes of that period made the French people particularly receptive to a new order of thinking that was characterized by criticism of all the prevailing social, economic and political forces. The paper further explains that, from this new way of thinking, a new political and social climate began to emerge that led to the Revolution, which, in turn, ushered in an era of new social, political and economic rights and ideals still strongly associated with the French today.

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"The socio-economic causes of the revolution began to rise to the surface in the period following the treaties of Utrecht and Rastadt in 1713 and 1714, ending twenty-five years of war. The country entered into a period of recovery, and by 1770 the basic economic and social structures of a pre-industrial society were firmly in place. Although a Marxist view of the revolution prevailed for a number of years, recent historians emphasize the social causes. Rather than a struggle between a declining nobility and a rising bourgeoisie, historians now stress the fact that nobles and bourgeois had many common interests."

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