They were staunch defenders of the aristocracy in many cases

Yeah; and they were largely richer than the aristocracy

But they didn't have power or prestige

Because they controlled like, shipping and commercial enterprises, rather than the agriculture that used to make money 200 years prior

Then when things erupted into revolutionary violence, why did the vast majority of merchants and business owners support the establishment of the democratic republic? @Platinum Spark

Anyone interested in getting into it, check out Revolutions by Mike Duncan

@fuck12moredeadcops when violence first erupted? No

They did not

The first violence was grain riots

But they didn't resist things like the National Constituent Assembly abolishing what was left of feudalism in the country

GG @fuck12moredeadcops, you just advanced to level 4!

Known as the day of the tiles

That was way way way later you’re talking about

You’ve got to go back at least to the calling of the Estates General

It’s like talking about the American Revolution and fast forwarding to writing the constitution

It was before the Declaration of the Rights of Man or the drafting of the first constitution, it is much more like talking about the American Revolution and beginning with the Declaration of Independence.

No not at all

You’re missing the entire setup

And the start of the violence

Why does the set-up and beginning of violence matter if I'm trying to illustrate that the bourgeois (in the Marxist sense) classes did not resist the abolition of feudalism?

Because the bourgeoise DID resist the abolition of feudalism

People wanted food, govt inefficient, people angry about taxes, bourgeois are lumpt with 3rd estate, 3rd estate tennis court, afterwards violence and protests

You’re just skipping the part when they did

Bourgeoise is synonymous with 3rd estate

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3rd estate was basically everyone not clergy or noble

Yes, the bourgeoise

Sure in the French Revolution, but I'm not talking about the 3rd Estate. I'm talking about the possessed non-noble classes of France

Bourgeoise as in burgher

There were farmers and other professions

That’s what the 3rd estate is

Yes, that’s the bourgeoise

burgher and workers are a bit effy

Every non-landed non-church individual

Is in the bourgeoise and the 3rd estate, which are the same thing

The vast, vast majority of people

fair enough

Er, they could even have land just not be enobled

Seriously listen to Mike Duncan’s Revolutions

I think the 3rd season is the French Revolution

He goes through all of this