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S T A R T E R ??The Downfall of Absolute Monarchy May –October
1789??
5th May
17th June
20th June
23rd June
27th June
11th June
12-14 June National Guard formed
Necker dismissed
Union of Three Estates
Three Estates ordered to separate
Tennis Court Oath taken
National Assembly proclaimed
Estates General opened
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The Downfall of Absolute Monarchy May –October 1789
Timeline of Key Events
5th May Estates General opened
17th June National Assembly proclaimed
20th June Tennis Court Oath taken
23rd June Three Estates ordered to separate
27th June Union of Three Estates
11th June Necker dismissed
12-14 June National Guard formed
July/August The Great Fear
4th August Feudalism ‘abolished’
26th August Declaration of the Rights of Man
5th October Women march to Versailles
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Tuesday 18 April 2023
How was the AncienRegime dismantled?
KI2: The Revolution 1789-1792.
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Tuesday 18 April 2023
Session Aims
Events of 1789.
• Review prep work on events of 1789
• Define and explain the importance of the events in 1789
• Judge the response of the king.
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What was the National Assembly? How did the Estates General turn into the National Assembly?
What was the significance of the tennis Court oath?
What was the impact of these events on the monarchy?
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• It is possible to view the events of July 1789 as the climax of a national revolution which had its origins in the aristocratic revolt of 1787 and began in earnest in January 1789.
• Provincial revolutions were now inspired by news of events in Paris. Some were failures, but others succeeded in removing established oligarchies, controlling the price of bread, and creating companies of the National Guard, designed, as in Paris, to curb both aristocratic reaction and popular disturbances. As intendents fled, so the breakdown of royal authority and the de facto decentralisation of French government were both confirmed. Euphoria at the news of the Bastille also prompted most people to cease paying taxes, which were widely regarded as been swept away with the ancien regime. This development was not congenial to the Assembly, which had inherited the royal deficit and was desperately hungry for revenue.
DG Wright on the Downfall of the Ancien Regime
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The August Decrees 1789
The following were abolished
Tithes
Financial privileges
Tax exemptions
Seigneurial courts
The Feudal System
Venality
Guild restrictions
Personal subjection to a lord
Corporate and provincial privileges
Extracts from the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen
‘Men are born and remain free and equal in right’
‘These rights, are those of liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.’
‘All sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.’
‘No man may be accused, arrested or detained except in cases determined by law.’
‘Only strictly necessary punishments may be established’
Every man must be ‘presumed innocent until judged guilty’.
‘Free expression of thought and opinions is one of the most precious rights of man. Accordingly , every citizen, may speak write and print freely.’
Taxation should be borne equally by all citizens in proportion to their means.’
‘…the right to property is inviolable and sacred.’
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TASK1. What led to the storming of the Bastille?2. What did the fall of the Bastille represent?3. Initially, how did the King respond to the
National Assembly? What was their reaction?
4. What was the role of the peasantry during the events of 1789?
5. What were the August Decrees?6. What was the reaction of the Monarchy?
