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The French Revolution
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Absolute monarchs didnt
share power with a
counsel or parliament
Divine Right of Kings
Absolutism
King James I of England
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The Seigneurial System
Feudal method of land
ownership and
organization
Peasant labor
Receiving a seigneurial grant
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Ruled from 16431715
Reduced the power of
the nobility
Fought four wars
Greatly increased
Frances national debt
Louis XIV
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Louis XV
War fought in Europe, India, North America
France ends up losing some of its colonial possessions
Increases French national debt
The Seven Years War
Louis XV French and
English
troops fight
at the battle
of Fort St.Philip on
the island
of Minorca
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First Estate: clergy
Second Estate:
nobility
Third Estate: the
rest of society
The Estates General
The Three Estates
Cartoon depicting the three Estates
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Taxation
Crop failures
The Third Estate
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New ideas
about
society andgovernment
The social
contract
The Enlightenment
John LockeJean-Jacques Rousseau
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France supported the
colonists against Great
Britain
Revolutionary ideals
The American Revolution
Marquis de Lafayette
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Jacques Necker
Tax on property
Calling of the EstatesGeneral
Financial Crisis
Finance Minister Jacques Necker
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One vote per
estate
Clergy and
nobility usuallyjoined together
to outvote the
Third Estate
Met in Versaillesin May 1789
Voting
controversy
The Estates General
A meeting of the Estates General
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The Third Estate
took action and
established its
own government
On June 17, 1789,
the National
Assembly was
formed
The National Assembly
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Louis XVI
ordered the
Third Estate
locked out ofthe National
Assemblys
meeting hall
The TennisCourt Oath
The king
reverses his
positionArtist Jacques Louis Davids depiction of the Tennis Court Oath
Confrontation With the King
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Rioting in Paris
in early July
Firing of Necker
July 14th: a mob
storms and takes
the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille
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Rebellion spreads
Peasants destroy
the countryside
End of feudalprivileges
The Great Fear
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Adopted by NationalAssembly on August 27th
Enlightenment ideals Outlined basic freedoms
held by all
Asserted the sovereignty of
the people Libert, Egalit,
Fraternit
The Declaration of the Rights
of Man and Citizen
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Lower classes
still unsatisfied
Thousands of
starving womenand peasants
march on
Versailles
Louis forced toreturn to Paris
The March of Women
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Financial crisis
National
Assembly
confiscates and
sells off church
lands
Church also
secularized,reorganized
Clergy oath of
loyalty
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Cartoon depicting the confiscation of Church lands
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migrs
Louis XVI and his
family attempted toflee France
They were arrested
at Varennes
Flight of the King
The capture of Louis XVI at Varennes
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Declaration of
Pillnitz
Possible foreign
intervention
Reaction from Other Countries
Illustration
depicting
Prussian King
Frederick
William III,Austrian
Emperor
Leopold II, and
the Comte
dArtois, Louis
XVIs brother
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New Constitution
Constitutional
monarchy
New Legislative
Assembly
Sans-culottes
Painting depicting the 1791 constitution
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War With Austria
France
declares war
War of the
First
Coalition
Levee enmasse
Painting of the Battle of Valmy, 1792
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Paris mob
stormed
Tuileries
Louis and
family seek
aid of
Legislative
Assembly Arrested and
deposed
The Radicals Take Over
Paris crowds storm the Tuileries
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First met on
September 21, 1792
Revolutionary
Calendar
Monarchy
abolished; France
officially becomes
a republic
Factions: Jacobins
vs. Girondins
The National Convention
A Jacobin club
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Jean-Paul Marat
Georges Danton
Leaders in the
National Convention
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Lawyer
Radical Jacobin
Most controversial figure
of the French Revolution
Robespierre
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The Guillotine
Dr. Joseph Guillotin
Intended as a more
humane method of
execution Thousands guillotined
during the French
Revolution
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On January 17,
1793, Louis XVI
was convicted of
treason
He went to the
guillotine four days
later on January 21,
1793
Execution of the King
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Created to cease
an internal
rebellion in 1793 Given dictatorial
power
Ruled France for
nearly a year
The Committee of Public
Safety
A citizen petitions the Committee of Public Safety
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July 1793
July 1794
Executions
Death of
Robespierre
The Reign of Terror
The execution of Marie Antoinette
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Robespierreoverthrown on 9Thermidor
Committee of PublicSafety dismantled
Jacobin clubsdisbanded
New constitutionadopted in August1795
Executive branchknown as the Directory
The Thermidorean Reaction
9 Thermidor meeting of the National Convention
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Promoted middle class
interests
Financial crisis
Food shortages
Riots in Paris
Rise of Napoleon
The Directory
Cartoon
depicting the
errors and bad
judgment of
the Directory
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Popularity rises after
victories over the Austrians
Conflict with Britain 1799 Coup detat
The Consulate
Napoleon Bonaparte
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1804: Napoleon crowns
himself emperor
Napoleon Becomes Emperor
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Legacies of the
French Revolution End of absolutism
Power of nobles ended
Peasants became landowners
Nationalism
Enlightenment ideals