France And Britian

In the political sector of Europe, you had various forms of government. France had an absolutism government, where as England had a form of “enlightened absolutism.” England’s king followed the enlightened path which is basically allowing religious toleration, freedom of speech and press. There was also a push for fostering the arts, sciences, and education. Only a strong monarch could seem capable of doing so. What it ended up doing was establishing a path to a modern nationhood. France basically had the same form and ideas, except that it was all in the way the monarchs wanted to rule the country. When t

Europe was destined for change, with the population growth, dramatic changes in finance, trade and industry, and the growth of poverty in France and England, something needed to be done. It could have not have come any sooner than at the end of the eighteenth century. What was about to happen would change the way that both France and England would control their governments from this day forward, I am talking about a revolution.

The social aspect of Europe was still determined on how you were born into the family. In society you had two distinctly different classes: the Peasants and the Nobility. In France, 40 percent of free peasants owned little or no land at all. Most were the workers for the aristocratic landowners. The village that they dwelt in became a large part of their lives. It provided poor relief, church, and sometimes school. The Nobility was guaranteed a place at the top of the social order. They were allowed to be exempt from taxation and immunity from severe punishment. Nobles also played a major part in military and governme

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