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Divided French Society/Financial Troubles
Who: Everybody in France, the clergy, nobility, and others (The 3 Estates)
What:Bread prices sky rocket and the gap between 2nd and 3rd estate gets huge
Where: France
Why: Massive war debts and greedy 1st and 2nd estates
How: France does not have enough money to pay their debts, first 2 estates spend too much money -
Louis XVI Calls the Estates General
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Louis XVI Calls the Estate General
Who: Louis XVI, The 3 Estates (clergy, nobility, everyone else)
What: The Estates General is a meeting with the 3 Estates of France (representatives of them). This is when the 3rd Estate takes the Tennis court oath
Where: Versailles, France
Why: The Estates General was called because there were hunger riots and chaos throughout France. Bread prices were super high
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Parisians Storm the Bastille
Who:A mob consisting of people in the 3rd estate
What: The mob stormed in the Prison, the dismantlement represented the beginning of the fall of the French Monarchy
Where: The Bastille, Paris, France
Why: They were angry at the monarchy and wanted weapons/gunpower
How: The demanded to be let in and attacked all inside -
Divided French Society/Financial Troubles
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Revolt/National Assembly Acts (Rights of Man, Womens March, Chirch Constitution)
Who: Middle class women, Lafayette's militia and other militias, starving peasents,
What: The Church and Monarchy are limited
Where: France (mainly Paris and Versailles)
Why: Because people were starving and the tyrannical monarchy was failing the French people
How: People attack nobles and any buildings, womens march on Versailles, constitutions are written -
Civil War (Radicals Take Over)
Who: The Jacobins and Sans-Culottes (radicals)
What: The Legislative Assembly takes power, backed by revolutionary groups
Where: France
Why: Because the Frnech people want a better government
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Threats from Abroad
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Threats from Abroad
Who: Austria, Spain, England, Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Prussia, Ottoman Empire (Basically all of Europe and some of Asia)
What: Many Monarchs declared war on the French Republic
Where: Europe
Why: Other European Monarchs fear "French Plauge"
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Monarchy is Abolished (Officially)
Who: French radicals, the Jacobins, Sans-Culottes
What: The monarchy is abolished and the French people take over to create a better government
Where: France
Why: Because the monarchy had failed the French people
How: King Louis is stripped of his title and then eventually executed (1793) -
Robespierre and the Reign of Terror
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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror
Who: Robespierre "The Incorruptable"
What: The existing French legislature was dissolved and Robespierre led a new governing power
Where: France, a lot of the killings in Paris
Why: In order to have a "republic of virtue"
How: The installation of the death penalty by guillotine
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The Third State of the Revolution
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The Third State of the Revolution
Who: The French people, the new government, Napoleon
What: The more moderate, somewhat counter-revolutionists take over and create a new executive committee to rule
Where: France
Why: The people called for order and escape from the Reign of Terror
How: Robespierre is executed, a new constitution is written up, and Napoleon rises through the ttemted rule of the Directory -
The Spread of Nationalism
Who: Everybody in France
What: The intesnse feeling of pride for your home country (France)
Where: France
Why: People wanted to be proud of what country their were from, and know how good it is
How: The end of the monarchy and Napolean's reign over Europe -
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The Spread of Nationalism
Who: Everybody in France
What: The intesnse feeling of pride for your home country (France)
Where: France
Why: People wanted to be proud of what country their were from, and know how good it is
How: The end of the monarchy and Napolean's reign over Europe
