French revolution -long term causes
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- French revolution -long term causes
- Enlightenment
- four features of the Enlightenment
- enquiry and criticism
- human progress
- reason-scientific edge
- upheaval-change in a country - restricting
- intellectual movement of writers and thinkers
- Questioned and challenged a range of views and ideas that were widely accepted
- nature
- absolute monarchy
- Religon
- Wanted Catholic church removed
- Questioned and challenged a range of views and ideas that were widely accepted
- Known as philosophies
- most famous
- Montesquie
- safeguard against absolutism rather than instrument of progress
- political process must be in place
- constitution to protect people and avoid war
- conservative
- wanted monarch to rule
- Political ideas
- Voltaire
- he was a nobleman himself
- Got privileges
- Absolute Monarchy
- Nobles to assist
- did not like the catholic church -independent institution
- he was a nobleman himself
- Rousseau
- all citizens should be constituted
- Human equality
- Promoted democracy
- Montesquie
- most famous
- four features of the Enlightenment
- Royal Government
- Enlightenment
- Political ideas
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