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The Beginning of the French Revolution
A. The Old Regime
B. The Estates General
C. The Storming of the Bastille
D. The March on Versailles
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A. The Old Regime• This was the government before the Revolution
began
• It was ruled by King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette
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• King Louis ruled from his palace of Versailles (12 miles west of Paris)
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• During the Old regime French society was divided into three classes that were called estates
• 1st Estate – The Clergy (priests)
• 2nd Estate – The Nobility (upper class: you are born into it)– They spend 6 months of every year living at Versailles
with the King and Queen
• 3rd Estate –Everyone else (middle and lower class) – 97-98% of the population
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Population of France by Estate, 1787
97%
2%
1%
Third Estate
Second Estate
First Estate
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Percent of Income Paid in Taxes
50
0
2
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Third Estate
Second Estate
First Estate
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• The 3rd estate paid almost all the taxes, but they had almost NO money.
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B. The Estates General• French government
ran into debt by 1789• Mainly because of
wars & life at Versailles
• King Louis called a meeting of ALL of the estates to figure out a solution to the debt
• Called the Estates General
• May 5, 1789
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• At this meeting, representatives of the 1st and 2nd estates refused to meet with the representatives of the 3rd estate
• The 3rd estate wanted to make changes in the government
• They wanted ALL estates to pay taxes based on their wealth
• They were locked out of their meeting room and ordered to leave
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• Representatives of the 3rd estate refused to leave
• They broke into a tennis court to meet to figure out a solution
• Declared they would not leave until France had a constitution
• Called this decision “The Tennis Court Oath”
•This was the beginning of the REVOLUTION
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• They would eventually write a Constitution to create a limit on Louis’ power
• More importantly they also wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1791)
• Adopted the principles of liberty, equality, and democracy
•This will inspire the rest of the ENTIRE revolution
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C. The Storming of the Bastille• July 14, 1789 – Parisian citizens were worried about
the king’s soldiers coming into Paris.
• Parisians stormed the Bastille looking for weapons and gunpowder.
• Symbolic beginning of the revolution.
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D. The March on Versailles
• Things were getting worse in Paris (the capital)
• The people could not afford to buy food
• The women of Paris marched to Versailles in October 1789
• Forced the King and Queen to move to Paris and killed several guards