... person would cough up blood and die w/in 3 days. The population declined by 40%. Great schism- France and other countries in French political orbit recognized Clement as the pope while the rest of Europe said Urban was. International monastic orders divided into Roman Avignonese camps. Each camp ... support to the Swedish troops in Germany. He wanted to enhance centralized royal power and xpand French influence in the larger theater of Europe. Amended the diet in 1629 by the depriving Huguenots of their political and military rights. He abolished burgundy, dauphine, and province so he co...

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... began a time of greater criticism. This sparked the peasants notion of wanting change. Under the Old Regime in France, the king was the absolute monarch. Louis XIV had centralized power in the royal bureaucracy, the government departments which administered his policies. Together, Louis XIV and the bureaucracy worked to preserve royal authority and to maintain the social structure of the ... . The National Convention met in September. The National Convention tried and convicted Louis XVI of treason. He was sentenced to death. News of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of Eur...

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... state. Grievances were long standing. France was an absolute monarchy and a fatal weakness in the system was its inability to produce strong monarchs. Louis XVI was weak and unstable. The population was divided into three estates, with the majority belonging to the third. Although the richest ... of the hated Lettres de Cachet. A limited monarch now appeared and the National Assembly had set up eighty-three departments, had curbed the power of the church and abolished the evils of the old regime. Ironically, however, now armed with a free press, Robespierre and others soon ... with Eur...

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... government or ruler by the governed and then substituting another. For instance, a revolution took place in both France and England within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Enlightenment and the political leaders led France to financial problems, causing the French Revolution. The people wanted change and brought on the revolt against their government. As a result, France's whole government perspective changed. ... ." (Scholastic World History Program: The Age of Europe, pg. 233) The Puritan Revolution of 1642 and the French Revolution of 1789 had many similarities. Both rul...

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