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The Coming Age of the Napoleonic Era
The 18th Century was an intensive period for France by the awake of the third estate which will lead the French Revolution remarked by the injustice from the Old Regime who caused them to live without secure and poverty, which pushed to the highest tension and lead to the rise of Napoleon. Despite the failure of the Old Regime to maintain the social status and empire of France, the impact of Napoleon Bonaparte brought equality, fraternity, and liberty to make France one of the most powerful countries at the time.
The Old Regime was a disaster that caused for people to seek for a more democratic society. “Economic conditions with the growing popularity of a discourse stressed freedom in the face of entrenched economic and social privileges” (Merriman 470). This situation from the Old Regime will later brought an unstable economy to the third estate. This also shows the growing of population while economic is going down, because people still had to pay taxes while the family needed money for living. The main cause of the situation is because “There were no central banks in France and French monarchy depended on private interests which will suffered from an assessment of fiscal obligations and inadequate accounting” (Merriman 472). This explains the economy was going down because the monarchies were fully dependent on others without organizing anything by themselves. This also shows the need of a revolution because the majority of the third estates were suffering while the monarchy was wasting money! In short, the Old Regime did not care about anything except how to live an opulent life, which is why the third estate revealed.
France was grouped into three estates. The first estate was the clergy and nobles; the second estate was mostly known as the bourgeoisie; while the third estate contained the majority of the people who were either peasants or slaves. The difference between estates caused “Economic hardship increased...