How did public action impact the French Revolution?

Answer 1

Media like books and newspapers -- and, equally, pamphlets -- affected the French Revolution profoundly. In sum, the written word was one of the most powerful tools by which revolutionaries shared their ideas and spread the spirit of revolution within Paris and nearby areas, throughout France, and then to the outside world.

Answer 2

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The printed word could shape opinions among the elite and the masses. A one page sheet of printed Cartoons and editorials, called a broadsheet, was a common feature during the English Civil War and the Thirty Years' War in Germany. The first French newspaper, the Gazette, was founded in 1631. By the time of the American Revolution, France had about 20 papers with a combined weekly circulation of 44,000, and this total only includes established legal newspapers. The French government in the ancien régime practiced severe censorship, banning many works of philosophy and any criticism of the monarchy or the Catholic Church. Publishers, editors, and even booksellers could be arrested and jailed for the contents of their papers.

Readers turned to an international community of French language newspapers and books. The Gazette de Leyde from the Netherlands, the Courier du Bas-Rhin from Prussia, the Courier de l'Europe from London. Some of these papers were allowed into France legally. Many were smuggled in, together with the works of Voltaire and other banned philosophers. The dominant impression of the news from abroad was that France was behind other countries scientifically, economically, and politically and that the French needed to catch up.

Answer 3

In its earliest form, the French Revolution can be considered a popular, grass roots movement. They had no support in the National Assembly, but they could and did control the streets of Paris. The people who did have a voice in the Assembly pandered for their support.