In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ... After the grand yet tragic rule of Louis XIV, the Bourbon kings watched as their power slipped out of their hands like a bar of soap. ... It did away with all special privileges in landed property, abolished feudalism, and vastly improved the conditions of the working class. ... The bourgeois (mainly the men of property) was well satisfied by their Directory as they called it, because it gra...

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