Revolution and Enlightenment in France

📋 Course Outline

1. From Ancien Régime to Revolution
2. Enlightenment sociability and print
3. Enlightenment thought and the Encyclopedia
4. Censorship and clandestine publishing
5. Sacred monarchy and absolutism
6. Councils, estates and parlements
7. Louis XIV to Louis XVI
8. Demographic growth and agricultural change
9. Financial crisis of the monarchy

📖 1. From Ancien Régime to Revolution

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Subjectus : Subjectus is a legal person defined by submission, where one’s existence depends on belonging to an order or community.
• Citoyen : Citoyen refers to the post-1789 individual as a rights-bearing person, with privileges abolished and individual liberty proclaimed.
• Sovereignty of the people : Sovereignty of the people is the idea that political authority comes from the nation rather than from the king’s personal power.
• Rupture of 1789 : Rupture of 1789 is the shift from a privilege-based society to an individual-based legal order that redefines the source of authority.

📝 Essential Points