Did The French Revolution Really Cause The Civil War?

The French Revolution was the most drastic and defining moments in France history. Nobody is arguing the things that happened during the war, historians are torn apart about what the cause of the civil war. Historians and documents such as Lefebvre, Doyle, Sutherland, and Palmer; all debate about what are the causes for the Revolution. Was it the “Classical view” or the “Revisionist view”? These historian’s documents attempt to justify weather the classical view caused the war or the Revisionist view caused the Revolution. Historians such as Lefebvre and Palmer believe in the Classical view. The Classical view has never been questioned until innovative historians like Doyle and Sutherland, who rejected the orthodox model, which says the bourgeoisie fought against the aristocracy.

They also believe that the Third estate fought for equality, better rights, and better social economics. In Lefebvre’s document, he stresses that social, economic, and political factors were very key in his argument. In his document he states that the bourgeoisie, the upper middle-class of the Third Estate, developed “A new ideology which the “philosophers” and “economists” of the had simply put into form.” By doing this and the clergy’s power growing weaker, the Third Estate was able to restore the harmony between fact and law. In Palmer’s document, he believes that the Revolution began with the bourgeoisie resenting the nobleman for his superiority and his arrogance, which caused the social and political collision between the two. Throughout his document, Palmer gives the reader a thorough timeline on what happened during the Revolution, highlighting the bourgeoisie’s rise to power and influencing the rest of the Third