Although some people's life improved during the French Revolution, many people like the nobility, and the clergy were forced to relinquish power. It is clear that it improve living conditions and resulted in more freedom, rights, and power for a certain class of people. These groups were the Bourgeoisie, followed by the peasants. They were considered the only winners due to the bloodshed and violence that the Revolution caused. In 1790 the National Assembly, a gathering of the most powerful nobles and clergy in the kingdom, produced the Civil Constitution of the Clergy that restricted the power of the church. First of all they did not collect taxes anymore and they would start being paid a salary by the government; they were confiscated …show more content…
Hence, the Church lost all the privileges it had before. Like the Royal Family, also the Church was in a high position. The Church before the Revolution was very wealthy. It owned 10% of the land of France and was exempt of all taxes in contrast, the church collected taxes from everyone who belonged to the Third Estate, weather they were Christians or not. As France’s main religion was Christianity, the church was even more powerful and the people followed the church without doubt. As well as the church, the nobility class made of the most powerful and richest people in france after the king lost their power during the French revolution. The rich Nobility, which owned 30% of the total land of France were extremely wealthy because they did not pay any taxes, but taxed their peasants, which is similar the the church. They were the only ones who had the privilege to hunt and to fish; they did not pay any property tax, even though they owned a vast amount of property. During the Revolution, when the sans-culottes had definitely took advantage and became too powerful, the nobility began fearing to lose their privileges and they soon tried to escape. Later