French+Newspapers

How has French newspapers affected society during the French Revolution?

=**French Newspapers**= The French Revolution was a late eighteen-century, rebellious, and a politically upheaval time after the American Revolution as it was one of the most significant events about disorder yet, inspiration in history. The French Revolution's huge events was widely affected by prints that were made in the time. Usually, the prints had higher interest in the first and second estates; however, the ideas and opinions and aspirations were passed down to the third estate–which made many riots in France during the late eighteenth-century.

=The Effect= Jean-Paul Marat was one of the most influential radical thinkers of this certain rebellious episode of European history. ([|Jean-Paul Marat]) He has created his own newspapers called //L'Ami du Peuple //–translated into "the friend of the People"– that criticized despotism, popular sovereignty, and natural rights. These newspapers opened the minds of the people and noticed the corrupt government–leaving the people to rebel against the first estate.

=How did this effect the French Revolution?= Well, the pivotal thing to understand is that French newspapers has **publicly** shared ideas and opinions and aspirations about natural rights made commoners in France realize their unfair lives. In the time, the idea of natural rights was an uncommon thing to study; therefore, commoners didn't fully revolve their beliefs around reason and deism and happiness and progress and liberty–the five concepts from the Enlightenment. However, people who has lived in America and moved to France such as Jean-Paul Marat brought the revolutionary ideas that later has been passed down to France commoners from newspapers–which made people question their government and started a revolution, the French Revolution.

=Works Cited:= Mowbray, Julia De. //Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848 //. Andover: Linden Harris, 2009. Pdf.

"Jean-Paul Marat." //World History: The Modern Era //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 1 Dec. 2011.

Mikaberidze, Alexander. "Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Need To Know." //World History: The Modern Era //.ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 1 Dec. 2011.