From The French Revolution To WWI

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“From the French Revolution to WWI”


King Louis XVI helped his country in many ways to prosperity. He wanted France to be the most powerful and influential nation. He was known as the “sun king”, which it’s meaning was that everyone evolved around him. The one thing that eventually was his downfall was that he was extremely devoted to wars for territory. He developed a huge army, improved technology for guns. He increased taxation because of the money he spent on developing his military. He eventually bankrupted France for his lack of financial budgeting, so to speak.
There is a rise of a Parlament in France. The French Parlament is made of a group of Lawyers, Civil Servants, and Beaurocrats. They do not wish to let Louis to collect taxes, which is a “right” to him. So Louis issues an executive order to collect taxes. The estate’s general meet to discuss this situation. They came up with the “Cahiers”, or a list of 5 things that need to address: personal liberties or civil liberties guarantees, laws should come from the legislative body that represents entire population so they can move away from representation of limited population, development of a jury system for peasants so they can have fair treatment, freedom of the press, and abolition of unfair taxation because peasants were paying ridiculous amounts of taxes that it was extremely difficult for them to live off what money they had. Taxes consumed 80 % of their income.
At this time, there were rumors that the King Louis was in Versailles and has a mercenary waiting to storm the estate’s general meeting. Then a mob gets together to attack the mercenary but unfortunately Lafayette calms the crowd. But it doesn’t help for the mob has later decided to arm themselves. The mob soon finds arms after many failed attempts at locating some, and then the mob turns ugly, rioting out of control. July 14, 1789, the French Revolution begins.
On August 17, ...