Chapter 12

Voltaire

• French Protestants that had chosen to flee

• Wrote volumes of literature to describe and endorse enlightenment ideals

• archbishops and bishops, exempt from taxes

• Nobles and Aristocrats. Charged rent to peasants

Huguenots

• French Protestants that had chosen to flee

• Wrote volumes of literature to describe and endorse enlightenment ideals

• archbishops and bishops, exempt from taxes

• Nobles and Aristocrats. Charged rent to peasants

Second Estate

• French Protestants that had chosen to flee

• Wrote volumes of literature to describe and endorse enlightenment ideals

• archbishops and bishops, exempt from taxes

• Nobles and Aristocrats. Charged rent to peasants

First Estate

• French Protestants that had chosen to flee

• Wrote volumes of literature to describe and endorse enlightenment ideals

• archbishops and bishops, exempt from taxes

• Nobles and Aristocrats. Charged rent to peasants

Third Estate

• King and queen during revolution, unqualified to lead, people came to hate them

• vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written

• Had authority to reform tax system

• majority of population (peasants and all others), paid all of the taxes

Tennis Court Oath

• King and queen during revolution, unqualified to lead, people came to hate them

• vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written

• Had authority to reform tax system

• majority of population (peasants and all others), paid all of the taxes

Estates General

• King and queen during revolution, unqualified to lead, people came to hate them

• vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written

• Had authority to reform tax system

• majority of population (peasants and all others), paid all of the taxes

Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette

• King and queen during revolution, unqualified to lead, people came to hate them

• vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written

• Had authority to reform tax system

• majority of population (peasants and all others), paid all of the taxes

Committee of public safety

• Led to revolutionary government, absolute authority

• Where wealthy people fled when they felt threatened from "Declaration of rights of man". War declared on this nation.

• Demanded end of abuses, and sovereign will of the people as the basis for law

• Frances day of independence

Austria

• Led to revolutionary government, absolute authority

• Where wealthy people fled when they felt threatened from "Declaration of rights of man". War declared on this nation.

• Demanded end of abuses, and sovereign will of the people as the basis for law

• Frances day of independence