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=**What peasants valued**= What did peasants value the most during French Revolution?

Peasants, one of the major victims before the revolution, belonged in the Third Estate. They were living in poverty, suffering from heavy taxation to the kings, to the church, to the lord of the manor, as well as taxes on food such as bread and wine. Influenced by the Enlightenment ideas, peasants began to be unhappy with their kings and thought about their rights.

Soon, National Assembly, the representative of people of France, was formed mainly by Third Estates, hoping to regain rights of the ordinary people. Along with other people of the Third Estates, the peasants shared common values-- Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. The peasants wanted to get rid of the privileges that only nobles and clergy had as well as be free from all the heavy taxes they had to pay and to lower the price of the bread. They wanted a fair, equal treatment regardless of how wealthy one was. The National Assembly created the Declaration of Human Rights, protecting the rights and equalities of humans, including the peasants.

Rumors about killing the peasants began to spread, causing the Great Fear, leading peasants to turn violent. The revolutionaries stormed into Bastille, the old castle in Paris, and killed the Commander and the garrison. They released the criminals there free, and the mobs moved through the streets with the Commander’s head on a pole. The desire of the commoners for their freedom had spread wildly into the whole France. Peasants also started burning down the castles of their lords to destroy the papers that recorded the lords’ rights. Such actions made a huge impression and showed their strong beliefs of equality and liberty. Eventually, French aristocrats voluntary renounced their privileges. A decree that aimed to abolish the entire feudal system was passed. Finally, the peasants gained their equality and liberty, their biggest values and what they had longed for.


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