way people are treated uneder an absolute monarchy in france in the 1600s?
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Well, if you look at france in the late 1700s, Louis the xvi (16th) got his head sliced off because of his treatment to the commom people so that may a good indication on how people felt about monarchy even a hundred years prior. Many bad things lead up to a situation like that and it just doesn't happen over night. I am a history grad. and I could help you if need be. You can email me if you want.
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At the moment it is a democracy/constitutional monarchy, where the queen is the head of state but does not wield any power.\n\nPreviously Britain has been ruled by an absolute monarchy within a feudal system as well as having Oliver Cromwell, who, I guess, would be described as a president at a time when representational democracy did not really happen (1641?)
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what does this have to do with royalty?
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Well in the days of high kingdom hood, the benefits were a stable line of government.  The royal family was the standard of how one should conduct themselves.  The burden of government fell on one person to make the necessary decision without the complications of pleasing everyone.
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When our ancestors lived under the rule of royality ,they had no rights .\nThey were to praise the king and queen ,not question their authority or refuse to pay unfair taxes.\nWhen they left England they came with the idea on how not to live .\nThey set up a government accordingly.
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In 1603 James VI of Scotland became King of England too on the death of Elizabeth I.  He became known as James I of England.  From that point on the King of Scotland and King of England became the same person.  The two kingdoms stayed separate with separate Parliaments until 1707 when the Acts of Union were passed.  This created the Kingdom of Great Britain with a single Parliament in London.\n\nIn the time of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI the relationship would have been with Great Britain.  George III was on the throne.  \n\nAfter Britain lost the American colonies, France was the first country to sign a treaty with the United States so I think we can take it that the relationship between France and Britain was anything but good.\n\nLess than a decade after Marie Antoinette's execution the Napoleonic Wars broke out.
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Louis XVI was a blue blood, a member of the Royal Bourbon family. Napolean was a very low level artistocrat. Nap however gained power through his genius, while Lou gained it through his family.
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You will find your answer here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_revolution#The_Estates-General_of_1789\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Avignon: the pope used to be based their at a time. You also have Reims, where the kings were made kings ;)\nLove and kisses
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Its a form of government, there are monarchies where you have Kind and Queen, Republic, Oligarchies, Democracy like the USA, Socialist, Communist like China, Anarchies, Fundmentalist where supreme religious leader rule.
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It's not real, at least not how it is portrayed now days.  It was once real, before the french revolution.  But all the garbage that is out there about it now isn't it.
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a monarchy is a type of government that is ruled by 1 individual...namely a king or queen.\n\nIt was used to benefit the king...what he said, went, no questions asked.  It also eliminated the middle man, the king said stuff and things happened, therefore speeding up the whole decision making process...either in a good way or a bad way.\n\nits structure:\n\nking at top\nthen church if applicable\nthen other nobles in the land\nthen peasants (ordinary people)\nthen slaves if applicable
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Here is a list of all the French kings, according to their Houses:\nhttp://www.beyond.fr/history/kings.html\n\nThere were nineteen named Louis, but one did not have the number - Louis-Philippe, the last.  The little Louis-Charles (briefly Louis XVII) was only a child and disappeared in the Temple prison, rather like the two little Princes in the Tower in England 400 years earlier.\n\nSome were notable, some not, as in every monarchy.  The little son ("Dauphin", ie heir to the throne, as in "Crown Prince" or "Prince of Wales") of Louis XVI, Louis-Charles, became Louis XVII de jure to the royalists and some international states , but nobody knows the truth of what happened to him after the deaths of his parents, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, in the French Revolution.  The last Louis (Louis-Philippe) would have been styled Louis XIX.\n\nHere are just a few details (too much to write about nearly twenty kings!):\n\nLouis II - the Stammerer\nLouis V - the Indolent.  Could be because he reigned only one year that historians said he "did nothing".\nLouis VI - the Fat.  Almost all of his 29 year reign was spent fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris, or the English. Nonetheless, Louis VI managed to reinforce his power considerably and endeared himself to the working classes of France.\nLouis IX - patron of the arts; his personal chapel was Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, a glorious construction using much glass.\nLouis XIII - advised by Cardinal Richelieu.  "The Three Musketeers" fought and played during his reign.  He was said to have gone bald and started the huge fashion for wigs, which lasted until the early 1800s.  One of the first exemplars of absolute monarchy.\nLouis XIV - the Sun King (in French Le Roi Soleil) or as Louis the Great (in French Louis le Grand, or simply Le Grand Monarque, "the Great Monarch").  Advised by Cardinal Mazarin.  Ruled for 72 years, the longest in France and every major monarchy.  Culture flourished and France became pre-eminent in the military and politics.  Was the embodiment of the Absolute Monarch.  Was known for his mistresses - Louise de la Valliere, Madame de Montespan, etc, and married his last, Madame de Maintenon late in life.  He built and lived in Versailles with his whole Court.\nLouis XV - started as "the Well-Beloved" but ended his reign as an unpopular king.  His famous mistress was Madame de Pompadour (after Madame duBarry, who lost her head in the Revolution)\nLouis XVI - His execution for treason, stripped of his royalty and honours in 1793, ended the absolutist monarchy in France.  Married to Marie-Antoinette of Austria, he was the king who wrote in his diary "rien" (or "nothing") on the day the Bastille was stormed (I think it was that day).  Probably well-intentioned, but unfit to be king.  He was named "Louis the Last", and derided at the end, even though he was at first popular with the people. \n\nThis is obviously very general indeed, and much, much more happened in the history of France.  To begin with, click on this link for a Wikipedia site.  It lists all the kings of France, with pictures, and you can click on each name to find out more detail about them and their reigns:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs\n\n(Did you know that the majority of French kings were buried in the mausoleum of St Denis, in the suburbs of Paris?)
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yes, i know alot about henvy VIII, like the previous answerer, i suggest you go and get a book and read all about it.\n\njust to get you started a bit...\n\nin henrys time people were often beheaded for minor crimes.\n\nsocial class difference includes things like eating roast swan and whole pigs for an evening meal for the upper classes and for the lower classes there was maybe some bread and whatever seasonal vegetable or game/meat was available.\n\nedward the 6th came after edward the 5th and was he the one who was really sickly?  or was that another one?.....you'll have to find out yourself dude!
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Talk about how the French people were oppresed, how they suffered, and how, like the American colonists, they needed to rebel. ex:  "The French people before the time of the Revolution were poor and starving.  The king and queen ignoreed the peoples' struggles, and so to save themselves, the French people had to rebel."  That is from my report that I did in fourth grade (I live in France, so I know a lot about the Revolution).
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france because as a power at it time, it ended the monarchy sytem and promote the republic as the new system to rule people
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Absolute monarchy is a monarchial form of government where the ruler has the power to rule his or her land or country and its citizens freely, with no laws or legally-organized direct opposition in force. Although some religious authority may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or body of law above what is decreed by the sovereign (king or queen). As a theory of civics, absolute monarchy puts total trust in well-bred and well-trained monarchs raised for the role from birth.\nIn theory, an absolute monarch has total power over his or her people and land, including the aristocracy and sometimes the clergy (see caesaropapism), but in practice, absolute monarchs have often found their power limited. One current example is the Kingdom of Nepal, which is technically an absolute monarchy, but which faces stiff opposition from Maoist insurgents.\nSome monarchies have powerless or symbolic parliaments and other governmental bodies that the monarch can alter or dissolve at will. Despite effectively being absolute monarchies, they are technically constitutional monarchies due to the existence of a constitution and national canon of law.