How did the Revolution affect the everyday life of the French people?

How did the Revolution affect the everyday life of the French people?

Revolutionary ideas of equality and liberty transformed the clothes people wore, the language they spoke and books they read.

With the abolition of censorship in 1789 and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1791, freedom of speech became a natural right. This led to the growth of newspapers, books, pamphlets and printed pictures.

Freedom of the press enabled voicing of opinions and counter opinions.

Art flourished in the form of paintings, plays, songs, and festive processions.

Visual and oral art forms enabled even the common man who could not read and write to relate with the ideas of liberty, equality and justice.