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Ancien Regime
What?: The Absolute Monarchy of France under the Bourbon Family (King Louis XVI and his predecessors)
Where?: France
When?: 1500’s - 1789
Who?: King Louis (all of them, some King Henry's too)
Why?: Allowed the King to centralize his power as Absolute Monarch of France
How?: The Kings ruled with the help of the first two estates (The Clergy and the nobles) who collected taxes from the common people (or Third Estate) . Together these too groups and the King wielded almost unlimited power at the expense of the Third Estates (the common people)
Related Terms:
1) Estates-General, 2) Noble, 3) Absolute Monarch, 4) Clergy, 5) Social Structure
Where?: France
When?: 1500’s - 1789
Who?: King Louis (all of them, some King Henry's too)
Why?: Allowed the King to centralize his power as Absolute Monarch of France
How?: The Kings ruled with the help of the first two estates (The Clergy and the nobles) who collected taxes from the common people (or Third Estate) . Together these too groups and the King wielded almost unlimited power at the expense of the Third Estates (the common people)
Related Terms:
1) Estates-General, 2) Noble, 3) Absolute Monarch, 4) Clergy, 5) Social Structure
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Age of Absolutes
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