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=The French Revolution Through the Eyes of The Nobility, The Clergy and The Urban Poor=

The Moderate Period: Storming The Bastille
Took place July 14th, 1789. After rumors that French soldiers were preparing to take control of Paris. In response to these rumors, the French people began to take up arms from various armories. Once the people had acquired guns, the needed gun powder which was stored in the French symbol of tyranny, the Bastille. Soon a mob formed outside the Bastille and a French guard fired a shot into the crowd. This caused the mob to storm and take control of the Bastille.The Radical Period:

The Jacobins Take Control
As the national assembly became the formal governing body of France, various groups had more control. One such group, were the Jacobins led by Robespierre. This group were strong advocates for a democracy. Soon they created the "Committee of Public Safety" which was really a group of Jacobins that did anything to preserve the revolution, even murder. This created much fear and earned the "Committee of Public Safety" much power.

The Directory: Napoleon Takes Control
Napolean took power through popularity. He was born into a common family which gained him popularity with the people. As he grew older he became a military general and won many battles, earning him more popularity. As he gained more and more power with the people he soon became the monarch of France. From there Napoleon put many changes into effect.

=The Clergy-John Moore=

//"Awakening of the Third Estate"//


"Awakening of the Third Estate." //Center for History and New Media//. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2010. .

This political cartoon depicts the three estates of old French society set against the backdrop of a conquered Bastille. Represented in red and yellow is the third estate, the man in red, white and blue represents the nobility and the 2nd Estate and the man wearing black represents the clergy. In the picture the 1st and 2nd Estates are both surprised as they watch the 3rd Estate tear off the "shackles"placed on it by the first two estates. Because the first two estates operated similarly, they share reactions in this picture. This cartoon shows that the first two Estates and specifically the Clergy thought that they had the 3rd Estate under their control. Once the Bastille was attacked, that all changed. The Clergy were not expecting this revolt and suddenly realized the immense power of the third Estate. The picture shows that the clergy learned to fear what could happen when the people united against the social classes of old France.

The Jacobins take control:
"The nonjuring priests have sown division within almost all of the cantons of our department. Armed with the flame they took from the altar, they want to scorch the earth. The fatherly house is no longer the school of virtues. The father has taken up arms against the son, and respect and filial piety have disappeared. The mother is fleeing the temples . . . friendship seems to have abandoned the earth, which, in turn, wants to devour its inhabitants. Such are the problems that the priests have created. They penetrate every house, upset people's consciences, and seduce the weak. A few months ago, the bishop representing the eastern cities sent an administrator to be the parish priest of Grand-Sancey, in the district of Beaune [in Burgundy], where the local priest had not taken the oath. The administrator went to his post and then visited the county's public prosecutor to take the necessary steps in order to proceed with his installation. But the priest he was to replace soon learned about it. . . . All of a sudden, a deafening noise echoed throughout the parish that the inhabitants were going to lose their priest, and that he was to be replaced by a heretic. At the same moment, men, women, old folks, all hurried to the home of the public prosecutor and haughtily demanded, "Where is this heretical priest who comes to chase away our priest?" The administrator, named Vernier, tried in vain to escape. He was grabbed by the frenzied crowd and dragged from his house. They took him to the river to push him in. By some sort of miracle, he managed to escape, but not until he had endured a rain of insults and had to make a million promises. In Besançon itself, where they [refractory priests] are watched, they say that "a new Saint Bartholomew's day massacre is needed to bring back the old religion and reestablish peace in the city.". . . Fanaticism has spread throughout the department. Everywhere, the nonjurers have organized. . . . In the region of Pontarlier, made up of over seventy small towns, there are not ten constitutional priests. And, for lack of substitutes, the rest have not been replaced. Twelve nonjuring priests remain in Montliver, a large town in the same region, and keep themselves busy by tormenting those who had the courage to take charge of the parish. . . [other examples follow.] And Louis XVI grants the protection of his veto to these brigands!" " "Report by the Jacobin Society of BesanÂon on Refractory Priests." //Center for History and New Media//. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2010. . This excerpt of a document was written between two jocobin clubs expressing the jacobin view against the clergy. This document shows that the clergy seemed to use the chaos of the revolution to better themselves. It seems that as time went on, the Clergy embraced the revolution and used it fot their own personal agendas.

The Age of Napoleon:
"Napoleon was not irreligious in the ordinary sense of the word. He would not admit that there had ever existed a genuine atheist; he condemned Deism as the result of rash speculation. A Christian and a Catholic, he recognized in religion alone the right to govern human societies. He looked on Christianity as the basis of all real civilization; and considered Catholicism as the form of worship most favorable to the maintenance of order and the true tranquility of the moral world; Protestantism as a source of trouble and disagreements. Personally indifferent to religious practices, he respected them too much to permit the slightest ridicule of those who followed them. It is possible that religion was, with him, more the result of an enlightened policy than an affair of sentiment; but whatever might have been the secret of his heart, he took care never to betray it. His opinions of men were concentrated in one idea which, unhappily for him, had in his mind gained the force of an axiom. He was persuaded that no man, called to appear in public life, or even only engaged in the active pursuits of life, was guided or could be guided by an other motive than that of interest. He did not deny the existence of virtue and honor; but he maintained that neither of these sentiments had ever been the chief guide of any but those whom he called dreamers, and to whom, by this title, he, in his own mind, denied the existence of the requisite faculty for taking a successful part in the affairs of society. . . . Whilst in his conceptions all was clear and precise, in what required action he knew neither difficulty nor uncertainty. Ordinary rules did not embarrass him at all. In practice, as in discussion, he went straight to the end in view without being delayed by considerations which he treated as secondary, and of which he perhaps too often disdained the importance. The most direct line to the object he desired to reach was that which he chose by preference, and which he followed to the end, while nothing could entice him to deviate from it; but then, being no slave to his plans, he knew how to give them up or modify them the moment that his point of view changed, or new combinations gave him the means of attaining it more effectually by a different path. . . ."

"Napoleon's Personal Feelings about Religion." //Center for History and New Media//. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2010. .

This document was written by an Austrian head of state meaning it is against Napoleon. It shows how the clergy learned to adapt in their changing times in order to survive. As the years went by, the clergy even became intertwined with the future ruler of France. The clargy was simply doing everything it had to to survive. Unlike the 2nd Estate which tried figt the change instead of following it, the church and the clergy lived on because they had the power to adapt. As Napoleon took total control over France, the clergy successfully has the support of the people and their ruler again.

The Nobility-Denzell Conway
[] This article shows that the nobles were sometimes the military and police. Their viewpoint on the storming of Bastille would be treason towards France by the 3rd estate due to the fact that they killed their protection and turned against France. "Ex - Nobles Targeted in the Press - Military Nobility." // Center for History and New Media //. CHNM. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. . [|http://c] [|http://c] [] "Chapter 9 Page 1." //Center for History and New Media//. CHNM. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. . Napoleon’s view of the Revolution was that h supported the 3rd Estate and encouraged the Revolution. He changed the government of Europe and gained enemies along the way. The Nobles would have ‘ been disgusted at Napoleon’s reign because he supported the very thing that they wanted to prevent from happening. [] // Center for History and New Media //. CHNM. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. . The merging of the Jacobins with Nobles and the 3rd Estate caused feud. By bringing in shop keepers from the lower class the Nobles did not want anything to do with the Jacobin Club. Nobles and upper class citizens already did not want the lower estate in the government so by bringing them together as one as Jacobins they didn’t like that.

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