Class 9 Social Science — Chapter 1: The French Revolution

What you'll learn

• ▸French Society under the Old Regime
• ▸The Financial Crisis of the French State
• ▸The Struggle to Survive: Subsistence Crisis
• ▸The Rise of the Middle Class and Enlightenment Ideas
• ▸Taxation under the Old Regime
• ▸The Storming of the Bastille

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- SECTION I EVENTS AND PROCESSES In Section I, you will read about the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of Nazism. In different ways all these events were important in the making of the modern world. Chapter I is on the French Revolution. Today we often take the ideas of liberty, freedom and equality for granted. But we need to remind ourselves that these ideas also have a history. By looking at the French Revolution you will read a small part of that history. The French Revolution led to the end of monarchy in France. A society based on privileges gave way to a new system of governance. The Declaration of the Rights of Man during the revolution, announced the coming of a new time. The idea that all individuals had rights and could claim equality became part of a new language of politics. These notions of equality and freedom emerged as the central ideas of a new age; but in different countries they were reinterpreted and rethought in many differe…

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5. Who ascended the throne of France in 1774? Get Solution →
6. What was the name of the Austrian princess married to Louis XVI? Get Solution →
7. What term is used to describe the society and institutions of France before 1789? Get Solution →
8. Which of the following was a direct tax paid to the state by the third estate? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 King Louis XVI enjoyed a hobby of picking locks and working with metal.
• 💡 The world's most expensive loaf of bread can cost more than $100.
• 💡 Ancient Roman emperors sometimes had tiny prisons just for naughty mice.
• 💡 The earliest known written laws were created over 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia.
• 💡 A butterfly's wing flap in one place can theoretically affect weather far away.

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