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How Did The French Revolution Impact On Society

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The French Revolution was a revolution that broke out in France on July 14, 1789, and ended in 1799, with the beginning of the Napoleonic era. During that period, the monarchy, which ruled France for centuries under the Bourbons, fell apart in three years. France in this period took an epic change: the past aristocracy and religious privileges continue to be attacked liberal political organizations and protested people. The old concept is gradually replaced by the new natural rights, the separation of powers, such as democracy thoughts. The French Revolution left a long-term and wide-ranging impact on French history and Europe. The French Revolution opened the curtain of modern society, the Republic's growth, the spread of liberal democratic ideology, the development of modern ideas and large-scale war between countries have become the symbol of the revolution. Many new institutions, ideologies and major reforms were established, and although in 1815 the monarchy recovered, many of them still remain. …show more content…

Otto Dann and John Dinwiddy (1988) claimed, "It has long been almost a truism of European history that the French Revolution gave a great stimulus to the growth of modern nationalism." As they said, the French Revolution made a great long-term impact on Europe, both on society and politics. The following essay will be divided into two part, the social change and the Political change on Europe brought by the French Revolution.

The outbreak of the French Revolution broke the deadlock, the old system under the traditional things and modern factors stripped away from the former and retained the latter, and it attempted to make a massive social transform in a sudden way. There are two major changes to reflect the social change brought by the French Revolution, which are economic changes and Ideological

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