I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Now, this may seem like minor progress, but here’s another way of thinking about it: The average number of garments owned by people living in France rose by more in a hundred years than it had in the previous hundred thousand.īy the way, did that dress look gold to you, or blue? And do you even remember that meme? Probably not. For example, inventories of French people’s possessions show that in 1700 women owned an average of two garments generally in solid black or brown in 1800 that number was five garments of more varied, even bright colors.
So, population was rising in 18th century Europe and despite an extremely uneven distribution of wealth and lots of wartime casualties, many people were leading better lives. Or, continuing, I suppose, because it never really left town. Today, we’ll look outward to how the 18th century European powers engaged with each other and beyond Europe-which is to say that warfare is coming. Last time, we looked at how the monarchs did-and didn’t-incorporate the ideas of the Enlightenment into their domestic policies. Hi I’m John Green and this is Crash Course European History. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?
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