Public Virtue: The French Revolution

The French Revolution’s struggles for the Thirst to Achieve a Public Virtue The French Revolution was a critical event that influenced other nations by showing how to change politics and take into account the will of the people, in an extreme and a direct way. Many people think that they strategy was successful, and others no. However, the French Revolution was “The Revolution was originally a popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges and wealth of the elite, and was perpetrated in the name of liberty, equality and fraternity” (New World Encyclopedia, p. 1). Before the revolution, the political identity of France was established by a monarchical government, where the majority of the residents or the

The second estate was called Nobility and its name describes where those in the place of power in France the King and Queen, and people who possessed aristocracy titles. The third estate, were everyone else, including the bourgeoisie (the middle class) the workers and the poor. The third estate decided that it was time to take some action to end the justice that they were facing, this was called “The French Revolution”. Even though the common intension in the third estate that revealed was positive, at the end it became a terror. My paper will show some positive results of the French Revolution, however, I will be focus on the reasons why the French Revolution did not completely achieve the first two of their goals “Liberty and Equality” although they could experience for a short period of time. However, I will show why the third goal of the revolution “fraternity” was not achieved in any aspect. Likewise, I considered the French Revolution of 1789 unsuccessful, where extreme’s ideas were put into action, and one of the

With the revolution many of their resident could taste a kind of a liberal society, getting rid of the monarchy government: kind, queen, and their oppression. The third estate did achieve some liberty by breaking away from the other two estates Nobility and the Clergy and declared themselves independents; According to the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, “A stage marked by liberal reforms passed by the National Assembly, the parliamentary body created when the Third Estate (i.e., those who represented neither the nobility nor the clergy) declared itself, in June 1789, to be the National Assembly of France and invited the other estates to join it” (Hart, 3). The principal cause to the third estate break away was oppression was coming from the second estate was called Nobility, and its members those who did hold power in France. The second estate had all the money, resources and the great privileged of no paying any taxes, and instead the lower class paid highly taxes. Because the third estate declared independent, the monarch used the military’s force try to stop the resident from the revolution, which caused the public to rose outraged a forceful reduced the power of the