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Essential Questions
August 4, 1789
• Noblemen make speeches about liberty and
equality
• Do you think these noblemen really wanted this?
NO!
Motivated by fear than by passion
Joined in to get rid of feudal privileges
• Which Estates will be impacted?
1st and 2nd privileges….GONE
Everyone is Equal
• Old RegimeDEAD
Aug. 27
1789
• Nat’l Assembly adopts new ideals
“Declaration of the Rights of Man”
What ideas do you think they came up with?
• “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
What
group was left out of the
Declaration of the Rights of Man?
• Women
• Olympe de Gouges
Fought for women’s rights beheaded
How
do you think people would react if
the government started taking their
property and other properties that don’t
belong to them?
Why
would a government do something
like that?
Assembly
took over the
church’s land
Priests and church officials
became elected officials
What do you think the
Assembly will do with the
land?
• Sold the land
Why would they sell the land?
Revenue
Which
Estate paid a lot in taxes?
• 3rd
Couldn’t
tax the Bourgeoisie
• Sell off the land to pay off debt
How
do you think the peasants would react?
• Didn’t like it
• Liked their priests
• Conservative Catholics
Created a wedge between Bourgeoisie
• Peasants oppose revolutionary changes!
Louis
over
XVI fears his days as monarch are
• Felt his family was in danger
• Supporters of the king left France
June 1791
• Tried to escape to Austrian Netherlands
Caught by a postmaster
• Recognized him from the $
Thoughts about the king now?
• Doomed
By
1791 major changes in France
Limited Monarchy
• Created a limited constitutional monarchy
King stripped of most powers
Assembly the power to create laws
King would hold power to enforce the laws
September
1791
• King Louis signs the new constitution
Legislative Assembly create laws
Approve/ disapprove wars the King declared
What
changes happened after Louis was
caught trying to flee France?
What does this painting represent?
Preview….the
Assembly splits into 3
groups.
In
your opinion are political parties a
good thing or bad thing? Explain your
reasoning.
New
gov’t….old problems
What were the problems?
• Food shortages
• Gov’t debt
• Want more liberty
These
cries led to…
• Revolution leaders attacking each other!
Legislative
Assembly splits into 3 groups
Radicals
(Liberal)
Moderates
Conservatives
Come
up with a definition for these three
terms
• Once you have your definitions share and
compare with a neighbors
Liberal
(Radical)
• Favorable to progress or reform as in political
affairs. Open to new ideas
Moderate
• Being within reasonable limits, not excessive
or extreme
Conservative
• Favorable to traditional views and values,
tends to oppose change
Radicals
Sat on the left side of
the hall
•Moderates
•Sat in the Center
Were called “Leftwing”
Opposed the king
and idea of a
monarchy
Wanted big changes
in gov’t
Common people
have full power
•Wanted some
changes in the gov’t
•But not as much as
the Radicals
Answer
the following questions
What
do the divisions in the Legislative
Assembly say about the differences in
French society?
What
similarities and differences do you
see between the political factions in the
Legislative Assembly and those in the
U.S. gov’t today?
Émigré
• Nobles and others who fled France
• What side do you think they were on?
On the Right…..Far Right
• Goal
Undo the Revolution
Restore Old Regime
Sans-culottes
• “those without knee breeches”
What
side do you think they were on?
• Far left
They
were
• Shopkeepers
• Parisian wage earners
Wanted a greater role
To lower food prices
Food shortages
1792-A
lot has happened in
France
How do you think other European
nobles/ monarchs feel w/ what is
going on in France?
• FEAR IT!
Austria
and Prussia
• Want King Louis back in power
• How do you think the Legislative
Assembly responded to that?
Declaring WAR
European
leaders thought they
were helping King Louis XVI
What shape do you think the
French Army is in?
• Poorly equipped and trained
Summer
of 1792
• Enemy marched closer to Paris
July
25
• Prussia threaten to destroy Paris if
anyone harmed the Royal Family
Aug. 10
• 20,000 invaded the Tuileries
• 900 guardsman tried to defended the Royal
Family
Guards
were over powered
Royal Family imprisoned
Parisians
joined in to fight
Prussia
Rumor that if Parisians left
• Imprisoned Royalist will
regain Paris
Fearful
• Raided prisons and murdered
over 1,000 prisoners
Legislative
Assembly
Responded
• Giving up on a limited
monarchy
• Set aside the Constitution
• Dissolved the assembly
National
Convention
Sept. 21
• Abolished the
monarchy
• Established a republic
Everyman
had the
right to vote
King Louis
• Common man and
prisoner
Middle
Class People
Jacobins
• Wanted to remove the king
• Establish a Republic
Jean
Paul Marat
• Ran a newspaper
• Called for heads to be
chopped OFF!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D7
nQk2Cyc
Jacobins
influenced the trial
• King Louis guilty of treason
Sentenced to DEATH!
Who
was France fighting?
• Prussia and Austria
GB, Holland
and Spain join in
1793
• National Convention
Draft of 18-40 year olds
Jacobins
had thousands of enemies
within France
• Peasants were mad
• Priests now following gov’t rules
• Other leaders causing problems
How
would you go about controlling
these enemies?
Takes over
• 1st mission
Wipe out every trace of France’s past!
“Republic of virtue”
Changes
• Families changed their names
• Playing cards changed
• Calendar was changed
• Closed churches
All these represented Revolutionary
ideas
1793-Committee
of Public
Safety
• Led by Robespierre
What
you think their job
was?
• Protecting France during war
BUT….
• Robespierre had total power
• Decided who would be
guillotined
1793-1794
What
type of leader was
Robespierre?
• Basically a dictator
Reasoning?
• Stay true to the revolution
Off
with their heads
• Who do you think he went after?
People who challenged him
Not as radical as him
3,000
were executed in Paris
Estimated 40,000 were killed
85% were who?
• Peasants
• Urban poor
• Middle Class
1794
• How do you think the people
feel around Robespierre?
AFRAID!!!
Turn
against him
• “Down w/ the tyrant”
July
28…Robespierre lost
his head
If
you are France what type of gov’t are
you going to setup?
• A form of democracy
Two house legislature
5 member group to be the executive branch
(Directory)
Stability
Selected
finally arrived
a new general….any ideas who?