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In reading Peter McPhee's book The French Revolution 1789 - 1799 he makes the argument that as he put it "...creating the environment within which capitalist industry and agriculture would thrive."1 There are two ways in which the revolution created this environment, first by maximizing the capital in which the merchants, manufacturers and farmers would have to spend to fuel this new economy. The way in which the facilitated this was to abolish the tithe, feudal dues, and tolls on internal trade, and to set up a laissez-faire and laissez-passer economy. The second way is by making resources cheap and available to all. In an agrarian society like France was in the years of the revolution the only resource you need is land, and this was made available trough the taking and selling of church lands, and through the clearing of forest and expansion into the wastelands. All of theses helped "created the institutional foundations on which capitalism could thrive."2 Furthermore, help jump-start the industrial revolution, which had already started in the north of England and was soon to start in the United States. France during the 1780's was a seigneurialism economy in which the king and the nobles acquired their wealth. Pla
It is important to note that even through all the levies and tithes the nobility did not pay any amount of taxes to the King5 The revolution of 1789 - 1799 would change the seigneurialism economy in to market economy promote a laissez-passer and new tax codes for all. Even marriages and land transfers fetched a levy. 8 A major principal of the revolution was the ideal of equality; seigneurialism on the other hand supported the privileged and the elite. The middle class owed up to fifteen per cent of rural property on which they charged rent to peasant farmers. The Legislative Assembly began pushing for equality under taxes which the clergy and nobility exempt. This was on lands that not on the lands that he owned but in any area under his control or spheres of influence. Also, the lord had to come up with adequate proof of ownership it was not enough to say that the land was his. Beside this once a year tax some churches supplemented there income through charges placed on special ceremonies like marriages and funerals. First, the total abolishment of seigneurial tithe. In their search arable land the confusion lead to a land grab by many of the poor. The nobility directly owned one-third of all the land in France. Which was that noticeably few clergy and former nobles attended. The majority of peasantry worked on these lands and like the church the nobility imposed a tithe on the years harvest. The Assembly had inherited the bankruptcy of the monarchy. 7 This was able because of a social transformation in French society.
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