The French Revolution

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Table of Contents

• The Three Estates

• The National Assembly

• Executions

• The National Conventio

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• The Terror

• Robespierre

The Three Estates• Life under the ancien regime• The Three Estates:

• Clergy• Nobility• Everyone else

• Late 18th-century financial crisis• Unfair taxation

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The Three Estates

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• What type of source is this? • What appears to be happening?

• What is the setting? How can you tell?

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• Who does the man in the purple robe represent?

• How can you tell?

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• Who does the man in the red jacket represent?

• How can you tell? • What is he wearing at his side?

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• Who does the man under the rock represent?

• How is he dressed? • Is that surprising?

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• What are the two men standing on?

• The words on the rock translate to “heavy taxes and forced labor.”

• Why would the artist write those words on the rock?

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• What is the relationship between the three men?

• Do the clergyman and the nobleman seem concerned about the third man?