Essay - French Revolution When Historians and Others Engage in Discussion on...

French Revolution

When historians and others engage in discussion on the French Revoluti*****, they beg***** with discussions about why the people of France became unhappy and began rioting, bringing about a violent end to France's royal family ***** many members of nobility on August10, 1789 (Gough 2007 373). A revolution is not just ***** deposing a ruler or ***** despot ***** replace ***** ano*****r whether that other is Church ***** State. The events ***** occurred following August 4, 1789, and the events that precipitated the night of August 4, 1789, are matters of religion ***** politics, and how the French Revolution went terribly wrong (Schwab 1995 221). At the heart of the problem, and ***** position taken here, is that the revolution collapsed from with inside itself, causing it to go bad, because of a document that represented a power play separating Church and State, which had previously acted in synchronicity as a Church-State government. ***** ***** is the Civil Constitution ***** the Clergy, and it is the focus of this brief study ***** order ***** create a picture not of how ***** revolution beg*****n or ***** it proceeded or the famous moments in its hist*****y, but to pa*****t the portrait of the document itself. It will be shown ***** that the Civil Constitution of ***** Clergy made it impossible ***** separate the Church and State, but that it did eventually happen at the end of the *****ary government (Bernard 1910 152).

This study lends itself to understanding the ***** thought ***** into the *****, the individuals whose thoughts it represented, and what ***** was intended to do. It is a discussion of ***** and religion, when ***** two are so intricately woven together as they are in the ***** of 1790 are never easy to unravel. Nonetheless, that effort will be ***** here, and it is the goal of this ***** ***** analyze *****m in a way that makes them no less interesting and exciting than ***** were as the events were unfolding and the people involved were living and dying for their choice of ideology.

This study will rely on the existing body of study and historical analysis compiled by scholars and historians. While the Works Cited ***** inform the study, every effort will ***** made to perform independent analysis and add that perspective to this study.

The Civil C*****stitution of ***** Clergy

***** Civil Constitution of the Clergy w***** drawn up in July, 1790 (Schwab 221). It was a *****cument that came out of the National Assembly, its Ecclesiastical clerics, but would eventually serve as a divide between ***** National ***** Ecclesi*****tical clerics and it's the ********** body of the membership (Aulard 1910 45). There were differences early on, which would become impossible to for both the ecclesiastics and the legislative members to reconcile between them (45). F. A. Aulard describes it thusly:

They differed from Robespierre in *****: Robespierre accepted intact the "civil *****" of Rousseau, with all its dogmas, ***** was doubtless already dreaming of