The French Revolution
An Overview and Review
Crisis:
Debt
Poor Leadership (Louis XVI)
-- poor choice of spouse
(Marie)
Louis XVI asks First and
Second Estate to join
Bastille attacked
- “National Guard”
Calling of the Estates General
-- dispute over voting
Third Estate Created the National
Assembly (June 17 1789)
-- some clergy and Second
Estate joined
-- June 20 -- Tennis Court Oath
Great Fear
August 4:
- Noble renounce
privileges
Declaration of the Rights of Man
(August 27)
Parisian Women Marched on
Versailles (Oct. 6, 1789)
- Louis forced to live in
Paris
National Assembly moved
to Paris
Chapelier Law
Louis’ Flight to
Varennes
(June 20, 1791
Declaration of
Pillnitz (Aug.
27, 1791)
“Reconstruction of France”
Confiscated church lands
- to pay debt
Created
departments
Civil Constitution of
the Clergy
The Constitution of 1791 (Sept. 1791)
-Constitution monarchy
-Unicameral legislature (Legislative Assembly)
-Limited number of people who could vote or serve
Jacobins – favored a Republic
Elections of September 1791
Girondists (faction of Jacobins)
-Opposed counter revolution
-Declared War on Austria (April 1792)
Legislative Assembly
Constitutional
Monarchists, 165,
22%
Jacobins, 330,
44%
Unaffiliated, 250,
34%
Paris Commune
became the
government of Paris
(July 1792)
The King placed
under house arrest
(Aug. 10, 1792
Legislative Assembly dissolved
And
National Convention Formed
(Sept. 1792)
-by universal male suffrage
- a republic
Louis XVI
executed
(Jan. 1793)
Declared War on
G.B., Holland
and Spain
(Feb. 1793)
C.O.P.S. (April 1793)
September Massacres
The “Mountain” and the sans culottes
First Coalition formed (April 1793)
Revolt against
Revolution in W.
France
(March 1793)
Girondists expelled
Levée en masse
Reign of
Terror
Republic of Virtue
Thermidorian Reaction – July 1794
Sans culottes
lose influence
Girondists
returned
Paris
Commune
Outlawed
Constitution of Year III
- bi cameral legislature
- executive of 5
directors
- very limited suffrage
“White
Terror”
Commune
leaders
executed
Republic
of Virtue
ends