Monday, September 22, 2008

The French Revolution

1)People back then in France where very critical about these three things,nobility,clergy and King, because they all wanted to stay on top of everything. They didn't want the peasants





2)A French peasant would've have grumbled about not having enough animals to give to the king. Since they where the lowest class, they had many problems paying taxes to the king.
3)The caption shows all the three estates, the clergy,the king and the others. Since the others are the lowest class, the clergy and the king are above them. They both can outvote the others. The sentence that is under the caption says that one day, hopefully this will all be over. The peasants will one day above from all and have equal power.
4) The writer is explaining how the lives of the peasants where bad. They had to pay most of the taxes and the way that the king is treating them, the taxes will crush them. They have very little to give.
5) The sources A,B and C explain why the peasants would hate the rich. Even without it being written on it. You can tell why.
6)Rousseau would most influence the poor people because since Rousseau is writing about democracy, the poor people would agree with him because they are the lowest of the class.They want to be treated equal,have equal power and have equal rights that everybody above them have.
7)The pamphlet may have been banned because maybe the people with greater class than the peasants didn't like it. The king probably doesn't believe in everybody having equal power. The king wants to rule everybody and wanst to be on top of everything. The clergy probably belives in that too since they are not at the bottom of the classes.

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