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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] How it came to be that way is quite the essay question. Daryus is quite right, the era of the French Revolution was anything but simple. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Overall it involved several things. Quite a few years poor rule by an elitist king and French nobility culminating in the wrong king (Louis XVI and his dear Marie Antionette) in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also mixed into the pot was the creation of a constitutional monarchy in England in 1688-89 during the Glorious Revolution bringing about the deposition of James II and the accession of William III and MARY II who accepted the Bill of Rights in 1689 and the by the Act of Settlement in 1701 which placed limits on the authority of the monarchy. Moreover the extention of some of the of ideas and political philosophy of the Glorious Revolution were brought to the colonies in the America fomenting what was mostly a political and economic revolution followed by the creation of a new nation state. There were however many social undertones to the American Revolution and several of these ideas were brought to France through the auspices of the rightings of Thomas Paine, the political thought of the American Declaration of Independence, and the presence in France of several great American thinkers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and the French nobleman the Marquis de Lafayette. Oh, and what Frank said, the Girondists sat on the right and the Jacobins sat on the left. There was also a group called the Mountain who sat high up in the seats. You wanted to know how it all came about. Good history is more than simple trivia. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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