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Start Amar Babeuf Barère Barras Billaud Brissot Cabarrus Carnot Carrier Collot Condorcet Corday Couthon Danton David C. Desmoulins L. Desmoulins Dubarran Dubarry É. Duplay Égalité Fabre Fouché Fouquier Fréron Hébert Jeanbon Kéralio Lacombe Lafayette Lamballe Lebas Lecointre Léon Lidoine Lindet Louis XVI Louis XVII Marat Marie Antoinette Mirabeau Méricourt Napoleon Olympe Renault Robespierre Rochejaquelein Roland Romme Roux Rühl de Sade Saint-Just Sanson Schneider Sieyès Staël Tallien Thuriot Toussaint Vadier Vergniaud Voulland 14 July 10 August 2 June 9 Thermidor 18 Fructidor 18 Brumaire Ancien Régime Assignats Committee of General Security Committee of Public Safety Consulate Directory Empire Estates-General French Revolution Girondins Guillotine Jacobins Law of suspects Legislative Assembly Maximum Montagnards National Assembly National Convention Prairial Law Republic Republic of Mainz Republican Calendar Revolutionary Tribunal Sans-culottes September Massacres Supreme Being Terror Thermidorians Varennes War Women Legal Notice
Ancien Régime
The Ancien Régime was the old order of France before 1789. At its head stood the king. He was the absolute ruler by the grace of God, residing in the splendid Palace of Versailles. Beneath him stood the subjects – a society divided into three estates. The nobility and the clergy enjoyed numerous rights and privileges, which were financed by the common people. Toward the end of the 18th century, the contradictions and weaknesses of the system became increasingly apparent. New ideas of freedom and equality began to challenge the Ancien Régime. In 1788, a financial crisis forced the king to convene the Estates-General
1589 - 1789 August 2, 1589 · Henry IV becomes King of France. He founds the Bourbon dynasty.October 17, 1610 · In the cathedral of Reims, the nine-year-old Louis XIII is crowned king.May 14, 1643 · Coronation of four-year-old Louis XIV, who will reign for 72 years.September 1, 1715 · Louis XIV, the Sun King , dies at Versailles. He is succeeded by his great-grandson, the five-year-old Louis XV.May 10, 1774 · Upon the death of his grandfather, the 19-year-old Louis XVI becomes king.May 5, 1789 · First meeting of the Estates-General . Beginning of the French Revolution.Quotes I am the state.
The people have no bread? Let them eat cake.
Whoever did not know the Ancien Régime will never know how sweet life was.
The Palace of Versailles
Amar Babeuf Barère Barras Billaud Brissot Cabarrus Carnot Carrier Collot Condorcet Corday Couthon Danton David C. Desmoulins L. Desmoulins Dubarran Dubarry É. Duplay Égalité Fabre Fouché Fouquier Fréron Hébert Jeanbon Kéralio Lacombe Lafayette Lamballe Lebas Lecointre Léon Lidoine Lindet Louis XVI Louis XVII Marat Marie Antoinette Méricourt Mirabeau Napoleon Olympe Renault Robespierre Rochejaquelein Roland Romme Roux Rühl de Sade Saint-Just Sanson Schneider Sieyès Staël Tallien Thuriot Toussaint Vadier Vergniaud Voulland
14 July 10 August 2 June 9 Thermidor 18 Fructidor 18 Brumaire Ancien Régime · Assignats Committee of General Security Committee of Public Safety Consulate Directory Empire Estates-General French Revolution Girondins Guillotine Jacobins Law of suspects Legislative Assembly Maximum Montagnards National Assembly National Convention Prairial Law Republic Republic of Mainz Republican Calendar Revolutionary Tribunal Sans-culottes September Massacres Supreme Being Terror Thermidorians Varennes War Women
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The Ancien Régime was the old order of France before 1789. At its head stood the king. He was the absolute ruler by the grace of God, residing in the splendid Palace of Versailles. Beneath him stood the subjects – a society divided into three estates. The nobility and the clergy enjoyed numerous rights and privileges, which were financed by the common people. Toward the end of the 18th century, the contradictions and weaknesses of the system became increasingly apparent. New ideas of freedom and equality began to challenge the Ancien Régime. In 1788, a financial crisis forced the king to convene the Estates-General.
