[Author’s Name]
[Institution’s Name]
Essay on French Revolution
Ever since the eighties, social history in France, as in a lot of other countries, slipped from a macro-social to a micro-social viewpoint. In the present day, questions about the evolution of social history are becoming more radical still: the reduction of the objects has often led to the disappearance of their social dimension. The definition of social history as such has lost its coherence, whether because French social history has opted for prospects borrowed from other national historiographies (for example social history of politics, social history of the State, gender history), or because social history has been contested by other types of history which denied the primary role of social factors: history of representations, cultural history, anthropological history.
French Revolution was the most important alteration of the society and political system of France, lasting from 1789 to 1799. Throughout the line of the Revolution, France was for the time being transformed from an unconditional realm, where the king monopolized power, to a state of hypothetically free and equal citizens. The effects of the French Revolution were widespread, mutually inside and outside of France, and the Revolution ranks as one of the most important events in the history of Europe. At some stage in the ten years of the Revolution, France first transformed and then dismantled the Old Regime, the political and social system that existed in France before 1789, and replaced it with a series of different governments. Even though none of these governments lasted more than four years, the many initiatives they enacted permanently altered France’s political system.
These initiatives included the drafting of several bills of rights and constitutions, the establishment of legal equality among all citizens, experiments with representative democracy, and the incorporation of the church into the state, and the reconstruction of state administration and the law code. A lot of of these changes were adopted elsewhere in Europe as well.....
