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French revolution II.
National Assembly (1789-1791)
• Louis XVI did not actually want a written constitution
• When news of his plan to use military force against the National Assembly reached Paris on July 14, 1789, people stormed the Bastille
Uprising in Paris
• Rebellion spreads
• Peasants destroy the countryside
• End of feudal privileges
The Great Fear
• Adopted by National Assembly on August 26th 1789.
• Enlightenment ideals
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Man
• Lower classes still were unsatisfied
• Thousands of starving women and peasants marched on Versailles
• Louis forced to return to Paris
The March of Women 5th Oct. 1789
H. The Court Returns to Paris
• Mounting unemployment and hunger in Paris in the fall of 1789
• “October Days”
-- “The point is that we want bread!”
• Women nearly killed the Queen
• The Royal Family returns to Paris on October 6, 1789
Tuileries Palace (Paris, France)
Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)
• Royal family sought help from Austria– In June, 1791, they were caught trying to escape to
Austria
• Nobles who fled the revolution lived abroad as émigrés– They hoped that, with foreign help, the Old Regime
could be restored in France
• Church officials wanted Church lands, rights, and privileges restored
• Political parties, representing different interests, emerged– Girondists– Jacobins
New Constitution
• Constitutional monarchy
• New Legislative Assembly
• Sans-culottes
Painting depicting the 1791 constitution
Changes under the National Assembly
• Émigrés• Louis XVI and his
family attempted to flee France
• They were arrested at Varennes
Flight of the King
The capture of Louis XVI at Varennes