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Divided French Society/ Financial Troubles
- The price of bread was raised and the peasents started riots.
- The clergy enjoyed a wealthy lifestyle while the peasents starved
- nobals also enjoyed a lavish lifestyle.
- The peasents had a hard life and were starving
- third class armed themselves and caused riots.
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Louis XVI Calls the Estates - General
• The clergy, Nobles and the third class gathered together for the first time in 175.
• The estate general was called together to discuss each estates problems and how to change them.
• They met at Versailles
• In May 1789 the meeting started and did not end until June of that year
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Parisians storm the Bastille
• 800 Parisians and royal troops gathered at the prison Bastille
• The crowed wanted weapons and gunpowder, when the commander of the Bastille refused they attacked. They eventually overthrew the Bastille and freed the prisoners and killed the guards and commander.
• The prison fortress of Bastille
• This happened on July 14 1789
• The Parisians were made at the French clergy and Nobel’s -
Revolt/ National Assembly Acts
• The assembly’s delegates decided to abolish feudalism and give French people more power.
• The declaration said that every French male citizen was equal and any man had the right to run for public office.
• In the city of Paris
• The people wanted a none monarchy type of government that was similar to the American one.
• This happened from the storming of the bastille, and after words
• The assembly no longer listened to the king and sold church lands to pay of Frances debt. -
Threats from abroad
• Austria and Prussia declare war on the radicals in France
• They choose to fight the revolutionary’s in France when they wrote the declaration of Pilnitz
• In France at the national assembly
• This happened when the king tried to escape but got caught and failed.
• The Austrians and the Prussians tried to defend the monarchy in France.
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Civil War (Radicals take over)
• The radicals in France used newspapers to stir the fire in France.
• The San – culottes were the people who pushed the revolution into the radical stage.
• All over France this was happening
• October 1791 the new legislature took office.
• The middle class wanted to abolish monarchy once and for all.
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Monarchy is abolished
• The convention that was held was more radical than ever before
• They decided to abolish Monarchy so they executed the king and queen
• The public square in Paris
• The king was executed in January 1793
• The king was put on trial for being a traitor to France and of course he was found guilty
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Robespierre and the reign of terror
• Robespierre was a good lawyer and politician he was none for his selfless dedication to the revolution
• His ideas of how to establish liberty was to kill other people that opposed him.
• This reign of terror took place were a Guillotine was close by and a dirty prison
• When the French people established a radical committee of 12 people that had absolute power.
• They did this to support the revolution
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Third Stage of the Revolution
• Another constitution was written the third one so far
• This created a two house legislature that was controlled mostly by the middle class
• In France
• In 1995 they wrote the new constitution
• Two give more power to the people
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Spread of Nationalism
• The people of France many the solders that were fighting its wars
• Nationalism spread because of people believing the same things
• In the French Military nationalism flourished
• By the end of the revolution France was a new country the people could be proud of
• The people were brought together during the revolution and because of wars
• A lot of songs poems and dances were created for the theme of the revolution
