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Revolt/National Assembly Acts (Part 2)
Declaration of the Rights of men or all men were born and remain free and equal in all rights was created. 1771, Olumpe de Gouges demanded equal rights to women. October 5, 6,000 women marched13 miles in rain. The National assembly put the catholic church under state control. Civil constitution dissolved convents and monestaries. The constitution of 1791 set up a limited monarchy that ruled France for centries making law makers elected by tax-payers. King Louis tried to escape but it failed. -
Divided French Society/Financial Troubles
Feudal society was traditionally divided into three "estates" or social classes due to finacial trouble. The "First Estate" was the Church (clergy = those who prayed). The "Second Estate" was the Nobility (those who fought = knights). The "Third Estate" was the Peasantry (everyone else, at least under feudalism: those who produced the food which supported those who prayed and those who fought, the members of the First and Second Estates) -
Louis XVI Calls the Estates-General
Summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solutions to his government's financial problems, the Estates-General sat for several weeks in May and June 1789 but want to go over the first item on the agenda, whether they should vote by estate, giving the first two estates an advantage, which was the king's choice, or vote all together, giving the Third Estate the advantage. It was brought to an end when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, inviting the other two to join, against the kings -
Parisians storm the Bastille
A group of formed craftsmen and salesmen decided to fight back on the Kings army. The Bastille was a symbol of the King's absolute and arbitrary power. So they decided to attack this. -
Revolt/ National Assembly Acts (Part 1)
The political crisis was teh worst famine in memory. It spread a great fear around the world, rumores of attack on villages by the government. The peasants set fires to ol records, stole grain from warehouses, and unleashed fear on nobles. August 4th, nobles in the assembly voted and agreed to give up their old manorial dues, abolishing feudism at 2 AM. -
Third stage of the Revolution
Moving away from the excesses of the convention, moderates oriduced another constitution, the third since 1789. The 1795 constitution set up a 5 man directory and a two-house legislature elected by nake citizens of property. Chaos threatened, Napolean the military leader, he planned for himself to advance their own golas. Napoleon outwitted the politicians to become the ruler of France. -
Threats from Abroad
To protect the kind, the government created the declaration of Pilnitz, having 2 monarchs and threaten to intervene, protecting French Monarchy. Food shortages, hoarding,prices rise and the government fails. The People demanded government with elected representitives. -
Monarchy is Abolished
August 10,1792, a crowd of persians stormed the royal palaceof the Tuileries and slaughtered the kings gaurds. A month later citizens then killed 1,200 prisoners that held nobles and preists accused of political offesnes. "september masacres". A French Republic was created to abolish the monarchy voted by the convention, ruled by the Jacobins. The convention put Louis XVI on trial for tratorism, leading to his behading along with Marie Antoinette. -
Spread of Nationalism
The Revolution and the war gave the French people a sense of national identity. By 1793, France was a nation in arms. Revolutionaries pushed for social reform and religious toleration by organizing systems to help the poor and setting up schools. -
Robespierre and the Reign of Terror
To deal with the threats of France, the convention created the committee of public saftey with 12 members. French armies overran Netherlands, then went to France. There new tatics allowed France to take over. The reign of terror led to many death sentences. -
Civil War (radicals take over)
The radicals vs. political officials. There was to be no more reform. The French Revolutionaries and the European Monarchs prepared for war. (April 1792-1815)
