Friday, October 12, 2012
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
FRANCE..... akin to venders of quack medicines. still, these affectations were a phenomenon(MC snoop dog of Burgundy) of some importance in this period, as slowing, how the current feeling + opinion was towards the principles of rights, that love of mankind, + zeal for good works which is based on the equality of man, the rule of the brutal duke of bourbon + his mistress, the marquis de prie, came to an end in 1726, + then andre hercule fleury, bishop of frejus, the king's preceptor, took his place, the stateman fleury + church historian not the same. the historian LX's confessor, the statesman his tutor.
A F now 1st minister + cardinal, was an upriht + disintersted man. pope calls him-'honest fleury'.-all society + king trusted him. but he was a narrow + limited his home govt obscure + uneventful('peace + prosperity'?) no scandals, but attempted no reforms. against his will a mark on foreign politics. also 'hand to mouth'. no large view. arrested the war which austria + spain, supported by russia + prussia threatened against england + france. the congress of soissons in 1729. in north, new elements. pter the great in russia, + prussi gettingunited. poland in the middle. france allied w/ england(BFF's) got involved. 1733 augustus II was dying + nobles who had made secret pact in 1732, called S O S + re-elected stanislaus leczinski king. the russians wanted augustus III of sxony, + as austrian + russian nobles supported him, while france did zip but declare war on austria. FR defeated + stan, after roomantic adventures, fled to FR. war w/ austria began 1733. in 1734, district + departments, above all, at paris, a supreme court. trial by jury for criminals. national assembly for legislation, permanent-1 chamber bi-ennial elected. 715 divided by district. by opulation. next finances. FR almost bankrupt. loans not taken up. taxes fell sho(BUSH TAX CUT DEFICITS) patriotic contributions dry. tallyrand-perigord, bishop of autun, proposed the lands of the clergy to close the gap. the committee declared the clergy were not proprietors, but o FR. consolidated + centralized + swept away historic provinces. no more duchies + counties. pays d' etats + pays d' elecion, no local rights(STATES RIGHTS!). local parliaments swept off; split into 83 portions of similar size + named departments; then divided into districts + then cantons. + political councils blah36 + 5. blah active + passive citizenship. active-high tax + had vote, passive- no power. judicial system recast- 3 orders of tribunals- cantonal, + expected a counter revolution(tea-party). some thought by pushing the innovators on, they'd get earlier re-election. but it was their ruin + the king's death. the assembly no help from home. spurned, the english constitution, w was urged. too royal. at most a 'tabla rosa'. they were sincere + fearlessly pushed the principles. their 1st achievment to carry out the declaration of the rights of man. in territorial matters, rearranged the soil parties, the right + left hoped to secure a modified + constitutional monarchy + those who wanted a republic. others intent on framing the constitution. no precedent. no healthy institutions. the clergy powerless; the nobles were contemptuous + careless(stupid/greedy). arthur young specially notices their flippant treatment of the crisis. they couldn't believe the new order would last. imprisonment of the royal family at the tuileries. frightened the royalist gentry; a 2nd + more numerous emigration now. suspicion + distruat reigned; baited breath.
royalists accused the ambitious + unsteady philip of orleans. republicans sure the queen + her party were plotting to overthrow the new order w/ immigrants + her german relations. the duke of orleans, a silly + stupid giggler, was driven by lafayatte to england. the #2 chief + no going back. he was their prisoner. in an interview w/ lafayette, he was obstinate + all but refused to send away hisswiss guards. blah blah king consented to go to paris, the queen + dauphin refused to leave him. 100 membersof the assembly went w/ him. paris ascendant over king + assembly, + the revolution entered a new phase. changes easier. much discussions. press very active, pamphlets + clubs. 'friends of the constitution'. jacobins. virtual man; the new journals(blog) threatened fresh disturbances.
FRANCE..... akin to venders of quack medicines. still, these affectations were a phenomenon(MC snoop dog of Burgundy) of some importance in this period, as slowing, how the current feeling + opinion was towards the principles of rights, that love of mankind, + zeal for good works which is based on the equality of man, the rule of the brutal duke of bourbon + his mistress, the marquis de prie, came to an end in 1726, + then andre hercule fleury, bishop of frejus, the king's preceptor, took his place, the stateman fleury + church historian not the same. the historian LX's confessor, the statesman his tutor.
A F now 1st minister + cardinal, was an upriht + disintersted man. pope calls him-'honest fleury'.-all society + king trusted him. but he was a narrow + limited his home govt obscure + uneventful('peace + prosperity'?) no scandals, but attempted no reforms. against his will a mark on foreign politics. also 'hand to mouth'. no large view. arrested the war which austria + spain, supported by russia + prussia threatened against england + france. the congress of soissons in 1729. in north, new elements. pter the great in russia, + prussi gettingunited. poland in the middle. france allied w/ england(BFF's) got involved. 1733 augustus II was dying + nobles who had made secret pact in 1732, called S O S + re-elected stanislaus leczinski king. the russians wanted augustus III of sxony, + as austrian + russian nobles supported him, while france did zip but declare war on austria. FR defeated + stan, after roomantic adventures, fled to FR. war w/ austria began 1733. in 1734, district + departments, above all, at paris, a supreme court. trial by jury for criminals. national assembly for legislation, permanent-1 chamber bi-ennial elected. 715 divided by district. by opulation. next finances. FR almost bankrupt. loans not taken up. taxes fell sho(BUSH TAX CUT DEFICITS) patriotic contributions dry. tallyrand-perigord, bishop of autun, proposed the lands of the clergy to close the gap. the committee declared the clergy were not proprietors, but o FR. consolidated + centralized + swept away historic provinces. no more duchies + counties. pays d' etats + pays d' elecion, no local rights(STATES RIGHTS!). local parliaments swept off; split into 83 portions of similar size + named departments; then divided into districts + then cantons. + political councils blah36 + 5. blah active + passive citizenship. active-high tax + had vote, passive- no power. judicial system recast- 3 orders of tribunals- cantonal, + expected a counter revolution(tea-party). some thought by pushing the innovators on, they'd get earlier re-election. but it was their ruin + the king's death. the assembly no help from home. spurned, the english constitution, w was urged. too royal. at most a 'tabla rosa'. they were sincere + fearlessly pushed the principles. their 1st achievment to carry out the declaration of the rights of man. in territorial matters, rearranged the soil parties, the right + left hoped to secure a modified + constitutional monarchy + those who wanted a republic. others intent on framing the constitution. no precedent. no healthy institutions. the clergy powerless; the nobles were contemptuous + careless(stupid/greedy). arthur young specially notices their flippant treatment of the crisis. they couldn't believe the new order would last. imprisonment of the royal family at the tuileries. frightened the royalist gentry; a 2nd + more numerous emigration now. suspicion + distruat reigned; baited breath.
