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French Society divided and Financial Troubles 1
On April 28 1789 there was an unrest at a wall paper factory. This caused an uprising. Shortly after the French Society divided into 3 social classes or estates. The first estate is the Clergy or the church people. They were wealthy. And they paid no taxes. The second estate is the Nobility. The nobility was very powerful. And they were all in a royal family. They also did not pay taxes. And the last estate is everyone else. It ranged from the peasants to the bourgeoisie. They had to pay all the -
French Society divided and Financial Troubles 2
. It ranged from the peasants to the bourgeoisie. They had to pay all the taxes they were treated unfairly by the two other estates.
They also ran into a lot of financial troubles. This added to the social problems. The government started spending more money than they took in. the national debt started to soar. Wars also put France into more debt. In the late 1780s bad harvest sent food prices soaring and this caused an increase in taxes and reduced expenses to solve the debt. -
Louis XVI calls the Estates-General 1
The Estates-General (States-General) of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate). 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 came to an impasse over the first item on the agenda, whether they should vote -
Louis XVI calls the Estates General 2
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 wishes of the king, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution. -
Parisians storm the bastille 1
on July 14 1789 the city of paris seized the spotlight from the National Assembly. Their were rummors of troops going to occupy the capital. 800 people assembled outside the bastile. They demanded all the weapons and gunpowder that the bastile had. the bastile refused and opened fire towards the crowd.many people from both sides were killed. the mob eventually broke through the defense adn killed the the commander and 5 guards and released prisioners. they found no guns. The bastile was a symbol -
Parisians storm the bastille 2
of an abused monarchy the stoming was a wake up call. in victory the people tear the bastile down by hand. this day will be known as french independence day. -
Revolt/ National Assembley Acts #3
starving kids. They are all working very hard and struggle to feed their families while the queen is doing nothing and living royal. -
Revolt/ National Assembley Acts #1
In 1789 a political crisis leads to a French revolt. The famine in France was higher than ever. Also the unemployment was very high. People spent 80% of their income on bread for their families. This time is known as the great fear. There were rumors of attacks on villages and that government troops were ceasing peasant’s crops. Due to all of this the peasants all their fury on the nobles.
The peasants then form the National assembly. This ends special privileges and feudalism is abolished. The -
Revolt/ National Assembley Acts #2
special privileges and feudalism is abolished. The declaration of the rights of man is formed in late august. This modeled the America Declaration of independence. It stated that all men were born equal and free. They took many ideas from the ideas of Voltaire. This still did not include woman’s rights.
6000 woman marched 13 miles in pouring rain to Versailles. They demanded to see the king, the king agreed and left to Paris. All these woman want to be able to have food for their starving kids. -
threats from abroad
The failed escape of Kind Louis XVI brought hostile rumblings abroad. In august 1791 King of Prussia and the emperor of Austria issued. The Declaration of Pinnate was formed. Two monarchs threatened to intervene to protect French Monarchy. They did and this all lead up to the civil war -
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Civil War
Civil war pictureIn 1792 the wars of the words between French and European monarchs moved onto the battlefield. Both sides eager to spread the revolution. The Legislative assembly made up of Prussia, Britain and other states won against France. This lasted on and off until 1815 -
Robespierre and the reign of terror # 1
Instead of a democracy the Convention established a war dictatorship operating through the Committee of Public Safety, the Committee of General Security, and numerous agencies such as the Revolutionary Tribunal. Known to history as the Reign of Terror, this period represented the efforts of a few men to govern the country and wage war in a time of crisis. Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre dominated the new government, with Robespierre gradually gaining over Danton and others. Price and -
Robespierre and the reign of terror # #2
wage maximums were unevenly enforced, and acceptance of the inflated paper currency, the assignats, was made mandatory. A huge number of suspects were arrested; thousands were executed, including Marie Antoinette. A revolutionary calendar, with 10-day weeks, was adopted.
The fanatic Jacques Hébert, who had introduced the worship of a goddess of Reason, was arrested and executed in Mar., 1794, along with other so-called ultrarevolutionaries. The next month Danton and his followers, -
Robespierre and the reign of terror #3
the "Indulgents," who advocated relaxation of emergency measures, were executed. To counter Hébertist influence, Robespierre proclaimed (June, 1794) the cult of the Supreme Being. France's military successes lessened the need for strong domestic measures, but Robespierre called for new purges. Fearing that the Terror would be turned against them, members of the Convention arrested Robespierre on July 27, 1794 (see Thermidor), and had him guillotined; a majority of Commune members were also kille -
Monarch is abloished #1
in Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. The measure came one year after King Louis XVI reluctantly approved a new constitution that stripped him of much of his power. Louis ascended to the French throne in 1774 and from the start was unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems that he inherited from his predecessors. In 1789, food shortages and economic crises led to the outbreak of the French Revolution. -
Monarch is abloished #2
Louis and his queen, Mary-Antoinette, were imprisoned in August 1792, and in September the monarchy was abolished. Soon after, evidence of Louis' counterrevolutionary intrigues with foreign nations was discovered, and he was put on trial for treason. In January 1793, Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Marie-Antoinette followed him to the guillotine nine months later.
