French Revolution Changes

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In its core, the French Revolution was a fight for rights by several groups of people: commoners, women, slaves, and religious minorities are often the main groups discussed within the context of the French Revolution. However, these groups were not always united in their fights and in many cases held opposing views on what was the best course of action for a better France. This led to France having a rather strange dance on policies where it would take one step forward then immediately run back to where things were before or to some middle place in between.
During the French Revolution, divorce became legal, then it wasn’t for some time before coming back again in a strange way. Religion, specifically Catholicism, was seen as some competing loyalty for the French Nation, then later on the French organized a cult around a Supreme Being. Later on, with Napoleon and the dawn of the French Empire, it became acceptable to be Catholic, or to believe most religions for that manner, within France and its conquered territories. France’s position on Slavery also changed drastically with Napoleon’s
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France had existed as a Kingdom for nearly a thousand years before the French Revolution began and had a rather stable governing style for most of that time –although there had been several royal families throughout the millennium- meaning that the largest period of political change within France at the time encompassed less than three percent of French history up until that point. Even when comparing this period of turmoil with a similar time of division and constant change within France -the Protestant Reformation- changes in policy and government within France occurred at a much slower rate –between 1515 and 1685, 170 years- and the changes that occurred within France weren’t nearly as drastic as the new ideals proposed throughout the French