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<h1>The Importance of The French Revolution</h1>
<p>The French Revolution represents the tipping point between old and new worlds. While the event did not answer how people would live in the modern world, it showed that they could no longer live in the medieval one. The French Revolution proved that medieval ways could no longer work in an increasingly complex world. Of course, the transition too k years to fully take hold--World War I stands as the last stand for the old ways--the vector toward modernism set its direction around 1789. The list below shows some of the developments that grew out of the French Revolution:</p>
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    <li>Nationalism</li>
    <li>Lapse of the Second Estate</li>
    <li>Modern Government</li>
    <li>Conservatism versus Liberalism</li>
    <li>The Effective end of Monarchism</li>
    <li>The End of Elitist Militaries</li>
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<p>While the above list certainly is not a comprehensive, keep in mind that this tipping point iremains unresolved in many ways. No one view can answer what it means to history and our time during. <br>
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We cover the list issue by issue below.</p>
<h2>Nationalism</h2>
<p>The idea of nationalism grew in diplomatic circles beginning with the Peace of Westphalia, the idea did not spread to the masses until after the Napoleonic Wars. Though down to our time no one definition of nationalism serves all circumstances, the abstract idea of a national identity took hold across Europe once populations could see the benefits.. The European adoption of the concept later spread globally with varying results.<br>
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The importance of nationalism cannot be understated. Prior to the revolution one took allegiance to the monarch. After, allegiance went to the state; abstraction over personal knowledge. From here the leap to paying loyalty to a money or profession is not a large one. This change also shows how Reason had moved past theory into everyday life,&nbsp; a major shift in human understanding.<br>
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Nationalism worked in two distinct directions. Politicians could use it enflame a movement as Hitler and Mussolini managed to accomplish. At the same time politicians now had tio be seen as working toward&nbsp; national interests. <br>
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<h2>Lapse of the Second Estate</h2>
<p>The second estate included both the nobility of the monarchy. Because both branches of this group had fallen out of touch with the everyday, the Revolution came upon them with little warning and left both the nobles to fight together, though neither group had few reasons to do so before the event. Their relationship in fact should be considered a direct cause of the entire conflagration.</p>
<h3>Taxes No One Wanted to Pay</h3>
<p>By the 1780s nobles felt insulted even to be asked to pay taxes. Part of the attraction to be nobility included this no-tax status. The attraction proved high enough that those of the middle-class with the proper connection could buy nobility that came with no tax liability. Perhaps a few exceptions like these would have had little economic affect, but the practice occurred across the French Empire. Combined with the next issue, the lack of will to address taxes drove the French government into bankruptcy and beyond.</p>
<p>The opposite side of the problem came from the fact that France at the time had set foot in the modern world, without realizing the full implications. Modern needs include transparent laws, little impedance to commerce, reliable transportation and a standing army unbeholden to personal whims. Some of the bankruptcy came from the wars France fought, most versus Britain throughout the XVIIIth century. Wars required ever-advancing weapon technology, a consistent supply-line and ways to constantly acquire and manage personnel. All of the above required currency, paid on demand. At the same time the middle-class, who held a growing influence, especially with the monarchy (see below) and demanded more and better means to compete globally. The needs placed on the King had grown well beyond its ability to delegate its authority, but yet it could not shrink away from needs that had grown beyond its ken.</p>
<p>((Louis XIV)) crafted elaborate means to manipulate nobility. This solved his immediate instinct to keep the nobles in check but relented the problems to future generations. At the same his needs increasingly put the middle-class into decision making positions, a situation that only multiplied over time. The middle-class made more money but its income did not bring enough influence to halt the endless call for taxation. Since nobles paid little or no taxes and the poor had little to give, we can see why those in the middle class had strong impetus to overthrow a system that did not work in their interests.</p>
<h3>Middle-Class and the Enlightenment</h3>
<p>Though many causes converged to create the uprising that the middle-class held Enlightenment ideas at the forefronts help set the intellectual framework that justified their actions. ((The Enlightenment)) is not a period that historians named after the fact, but one that stood proud to live through. In fact, many saw La Revolution as a test of how well humans could move past superstitions of the past. What many soon discovered was that Reason, the new God, provided many opportunity for interpretation, but few definitive answers. That some used Reason to persecute members of the Church, sometime brutally, revealed the hypocrisy of relying only on the intellect. Rampant inflation and food shortages did not help the case.</p>
<p><a href="http://example.com">http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture11a.html</a></p>
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<h2>Modern Government</h2>
<p>Modern government can handle debt, even bankruptcy and move on. In the late XXth Century New York City went through bankruptcy a few times, yet this center of commerce barely missed a beat throughout the financial crisis. France in 1789 hardly came close to modern government.</p>
<h3>The Ancien Regime</h3>
<p>Power passed through family for centuries in France. This system served to provide a means of transmitting from one generation to another. This tradition also helped supply defenders of the crown's interests, placing the military firmly behind this governmental practice. With membership in this class one seldom paid taxes, if at all, controlled great tracts of land and enjoyed court privileges. What this group increasingly failed to provide, the middle-class could: accounting, management, engineering etc. All of these professions required payment in another modern development, reliable currency,</p>
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<h2>Conservatism versus Liberalism</h2>
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The Effective end of Monarchism</p>
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<h2>End of Elitist Militaries</h2>
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<h1>French Revolution's Outer Planet Reflection</h1>
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<h2>All Roads Lead to 1648</h2>
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<h2>An 80 Year Transit and the Enlightenment</h2>
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<h2>Uranus upper Square Neptune</h2>
<p>((1649Uranus-270-Neptune1821: 1783))</p>
<p>This transit ties the Age of Reason/Post 30 Year period and post-Napolenic period as factors to note when studying the revolutionary period. the ((upper square)) (270 degrees) represents a peak. It is a time of extreme accomplishment and one of letting go. The time of the this transit brings the United States into the equation in a couple ways. The ((Treaty of Paris)) of 1783 awarded the new nation quite a bounty and the space to build without overseas interference. It represented an ideal in play since the English Revolution, enhanced by Locke and seasoned by the ((Age of Reason)). It showed that humans could overcome their most base tendencies by logic and sensible debate. That many French ventured across the ocean to assist the effort brought that event more intimately into the French sphere.</p>
<p>The other way it touched many French came through debt: France spent vast sums to help the fledging colonies and to prevent the British from reaping further gain. If the crown could extend money for American freedom, why not the French themselves? Through much of the century after US indendence, it served as an ideal many sought.</p>
<p>The ((upper square)) almost always points to a letting go, a final step that makes way for the new to appear. American Independence and its connection to the Revolution clearly falls into this category. ((Thomas&nbsp; Jefferson)), a student of ((The Enlightenment)), channeled ((John Locke)), who responded to ((Hobbes)). Locke and Jefferson both answered the newly raised question of how to govern on reasoned premises. The jump from Jefferson's</p>
<p><i>Declaration</i></p>
<p>to the demands of the Third State is a small one. Here we see the final step of applying logic, the first step of the&nbsp; process appearing at ((1649Uranus-0-Neptune1821: 1649)) with dawn of the Age of Reason and ending with Industrialism of the 1820s. Again we go back to the justified hunch that the Enlightenment ended with the French Revolution. The public saw that Reason led just as easily to bloodlust as previous mindsets did. We see the shift to ((Romanticism)), the next step implied with the upper square. Together, both events signaled the much of the planet, even the omnipotent British Empire, that old world slipped further away.. From 1783 to 1821, the last quarter of ((1649Uranus-Neptune1821)) developments began to push civilization beyond its agrarian past. The Revolution began to take on a new meaning among new working classes emerging with mechanization. A final step had been made and even the past began to look different.</p>
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<h2>Uranus opposite Pluto</h2>
<p>((1649Uranus-180-Pluto1848: 1792)) the half point arived at the middle of ((Reign of Terror)). Because these period included the death of monarch by mob, the point of no return emerged for all to see. Nobility across who may have supported the people's cause until that point moved into royalty camp. The revolutionaries clearly showed an unwillingness to work with the Ancien Regime. More immediately, various nations declared war against the fledging government. No longer could the Revolution live on slogans and ideas. Money, soldiers, supplies, food and the means to distribute them all pressed those tentatively in charge into new roles.<br>
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<h3>Saturn's &quot;Helper&quot; Transits</h3>
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<h2>A Cascade of Transits: the 1810s</h2>
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<p>As impressive as the list of transits during the 1810s appear, we must see how they relate to a similar list of the 1640s. Most similarly Uranus lay opposite Pluto around 1648 just as it did in 1792. At both times ruling factions&nbsp; went to extremes&nbsp; to&nbsp; maintain&nbsp; or forward&nbsp; their&nbsp; views. In England Charles I lost his head as Louis XIV did. This is not say that ((Uranus-Pluto Oppositions)) associate with beheading monarchs, but we should connect them with two immutable forces reaching impasses that require extreme solutions. We should also know that issues seem to repeat at all quadrate alignments; the unresolved issues of ((Le Fronde))&nbsp; (1648-1652) carried alway through the time of the Revolution. ((Louis XIV)) muted the nobles, but could not eliminate them.</p>
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