<P> A major aspect of the French Revolution was the dechristianisation movement, a movement strongly rejected by many devout people . Especially for women living in rural areas of France, the closing of the churches meant a loss of normalcy . </P> <P> When these revolutionary changes to the Church were implemented, it sparked a counter-revolutionary movement among women . Although some of these women embraced the political and social amendments of the Revolution, they opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church and the formation of revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being . As Olwen Hufton argues, these women began to see themselves as the "defenders of faith". They took it upon themselves to protect the Church from what they saw as a heretical change to their faith, enforced by revolutionaries . </P> <P> Counter-revolutionary women resisted what they saw as the intrusion of the state into their lives . Economically, many peasant women refused to sell their goods for assignats because this form of currency was unstable and was backed by the sale of confiscated Church property . By far the most important issue to counter-revolutionary women was the passage and the enforcement of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790 . In response to this measure, women in many areas began circulating anti-oath pamphlets and refused to attend masses held by priests who had sworn oaths of loyalty to the Republic . These women continued to adhere to traditional practices such as Christian burials and naming their children after saints in spite of revolutionary decrees to the contrary . </P> <P> The French Revolution abolished many of the constraints on the economy that had slowed growth during the ancien regime . It abolished tithes owed to local churches as well as feudal dues owed to local landlords . The result hurt the tenants, who paid both higher rents and higher taxes . It nationalised all church lands, as well as lands belonging to royalist enemies who went into exile . It planned to use these seized lands to finance the government by issuing assignats . It abolished the guild system as a worthless remnant of feudalism . It also abolished the highly inefficient system of tax farming, whereby private individuals would collect taxes for a hefty fee . The government seized the foundations that had been set up (starting in the 13th century) to provide an annual stream of revenue for hospitals, poor relief, and education . The state sold the lands but typically local authorities did not replace the funding and so most of the nation's charitable and school systems were massively disrupted . </P>

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