powerpoint presentation on effects of french revolution

In July 1790 it introduced the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which cut the number of Catholic bishoprics from 135 to 83, allocating one diocese for each department, and made provision for a salaried clergy appointed by popular election. In February 1790 the Assembly abolished the monastic orders and also proclaimed civic equality for Protestants.

The Assembly was prompted by the same need to raise revenue to pay off the national debt which had led to the summoning of the Estates-General.īut the programme of church reform was also ideological, inspired by the rationalism and humanitarianism of the Enlightenment. In November it decreed the sequestration (nationalisation) of church lands, roughly 10 per cent of all land in France, for public sale. In August 1789 the Assembly deprived the Church of its income by abolishing the tithe. Many of the clergy themselves favoured reform. The revolutionaries of 1789 also aspired to reform the Catholic Church in France, though not to disestablish it, still less to de-Christianise the country.

Powerpoint presentation on effects of french revolution