The French Revolution Pg. 504-507

The second part of the Atlantic revolutions were in France. They Estate Generals that consisted of the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. The Third Estate made up of the commoners started to revolt and came up with their own declaration called the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" which they wrote to declare that "men re born and remain free and equal in rights." All the actions that the Third Estate took were illegal in the ancien régime. This was what started the French Revolution. The French Revolution was different from the American Revolution because the American one was driven by the relationships between colonies with distant power and the French Revolution was driven by fighting within the French society. Everything that was going on in the revolution was strictly because of social conflicts within the country itself. Things took a turn for the worst when King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were executed as an extreme act of violence by the revolutionists. The Terror of 1793-1794 followed right after that. Thousands of people lost their lives behind the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre was later arrested because he was to blame for bringing the country to France to tyranny, dictatorship, and terror. Another way that the French were different from the Americas was that the Americans wanted to rebuild what they already had to fix everything. The French on the other hand decided to start all over again and build a brand new city from the old city that was destroyed. After the revolution everything completely changed in France that it was basically not even France anymore. It had changed into something completely different. Things either became something entirely new or they disappeared and were replaced with something else, like streets and buildings and titles. The French Revolution was a bad period of time in this country with good intentions. The people were trying to do what they thought was right, even though the whole rest of the country thought the complete opposite. What they were trying to achieve was somewhat reached, because maybe France didn't change in the exact way that the revolutionists wanted, but France did change.