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The Essentials of 18th Century France
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on July 10, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
40, crops, revolution, port, edifices, Versailles, dominated, Mediterranean, 1710, 28, 19th, specialized, suburbs, stock, medieval, villages, royal, slow, church, kings, hold, commons, 85, doubles, stability, excess, cathedrals, independence, bread, Russia, Jacquard
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contemporary Paris
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we are used to a France that is                    by Paris
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today 1 in 7 people in France live in Paris and its               
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2.3 million people
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Paris was almost fully rebuilt in the middle of the          century
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18th century Paris
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a far more congested,                  city of winding, narrow streets
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was much smaller
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only 1 in      people in France lived in Paris
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Paris didn't have the          on France that it does today
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Paris it was not the capital
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Versailles was capital from 1722 until 1789, when a throng invaded the capital and forced the            family to move back to Paris
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France in 18th century
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vast majority lived in                  and rural towns throughout France
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    % directly tilled the soil
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outside of European             , France is the largest country in Europe
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population      million, about half of its population today
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difficult to govern since communications were          and difficult
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10 days for news to travel from Paris to                            coast
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towns
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average town was 400-500 people
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vulnerable
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subsistence-based
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produced many different kinds of           
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everyone in the household helped
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markets were important
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farmers came in with              produce
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overwhelmingly a land of manual labor
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very small work places
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e.g. master clock maker would produce for a well-to-do clientele
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manufacturing
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very little industry
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starting to experiment e.g. with                 's loom
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but essentially artisan-based
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a society of orders or estates
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ancient form of social organization
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1. clergy
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2. nobility
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3.               
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almost every community was characterized by the presence of the             
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statements of power and order structure in a physical sense through architecture
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1. power of the clergy
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                     were awe-inspiring in comparison to everyday life, a physical statement of the way the world was in terms of authority and the place of the church
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2. power of the nobility
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the royal palace in                      was completed in         
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an awesome statement of the power of the            of France
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impressed anyone who saw it and communicated a sense of power and                   
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one has to ask how a                      was able of challenging a regime who was capable of investing itself in                  like this
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forms of change slowly occurring
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1. growth of          cities along the coast
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Bordeaux
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               in size during the 18th century
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represents a new form of commercial wealth
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           exchange, a symbol of the power of liquid wealth, a main source of change
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La Rochelle
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Nantes
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booming because slave-based plantation economy in the New World is booming
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French people are developing a taste for the commodities of the New World
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2. rural communities are beginning to produce                        products
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e.g. Champagne
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regions around Paris producing inexhaustible need for            for the 700,000 people of Paris
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3. across the Atlantic, British colonists had declared their                         
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there were repercussions of France's involvement in this the war of liberation from a nation by a new republic

Spelling Corrections:

clientelle ⇒ clientele
edifaces ⇒ edifices
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The Essentials of 18th Century France
18th Century French Clergy and Nobility
The Importance of Regionalism and Locality in 18th Century France
The Contribution of the Philosophes to the French Revolution
What were People of 18th Century France Reading?
The Atlantic Democratic Revolution and the Republic of Letters
1780s France Financial Crisis and its Repercussions
The Third Estate in Revolt
The Peasantry in Revolt
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The October Days
1789-91: Making the New Nation
Unresolved Issues of the Revolution
The Turning Point in Church Reform