Before the revolution in France a time known as the Ancien Regime
– Clergy were also radically divided: • The higher clergy stemming from aristocratic families
thousand were ecclesiastics the survivors of the French clergy of the early years of the Revolution. Indeed
"The French Revolution is most important for having changed subjects to citizens." A) Clergy were spared from the Reign of Terror.
Revolution helped toward the consolidation of peasant ownership. the property of the nobility and the clergy we mean only the immediate land of the.
Many historians believe that the French Revolution which started in 1789
interpreting the French Revolution: de-emphasis of the significance of. Christian religious beliefs in revolutionary polemics reduction of all.
Apr 5 2010 The Civil Constitution of the Clergy of 1790 carried out many of these reforms by establishing the Constitutional Church. The principal.
clergy. The French nobility for example
From the outset the clergy was established as a privileged Estate. The French Catholic Church maintained a wide scope of powers - it literally constituted a