Use this World History and The French Revolution video entitled Girondists and Jacobins to study the political, economic, and social forces that lay behind the French Revolution. Learn about the transformation of France from a nation ruled by the dictates of aristocratic privilege and an absolute monarchy to the rise of a government shaped by the bourgeoisie and discuss the major social and political effects of the French Revolution, a turning point in Western civilization that witnessed the political emergence of the common man in Europe.
Learn about Girondists and Jacobins.