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The French Revolution. First Phase: 1789-1793. Objective. To understand the causes of the French Revolution To understand the events leading to the French Revolution To understand the consequences of the French Revolution. French Literacy Rates. French Society in the 1700s.
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The French Revolution First Phase: 1789-1793
Objective • To understand the causes of the French Revolution • To understand the events leading to the French Revolution • To understand the consequences of the French Revolution
French Society in the 1700s • Divided into Three estates • First Estate: The Church • Second Estate: The Nobility • Third Estate: Everybody Else
French Society in the 1700s • Peasants subject to obligations (banalites) • Corvee • TailleGabelle • Other obligations
French Absolutism in Crisis • Louis XIV dies in 1715; his great-grandson Louis XV becomes king
French Absolutism in Crisis • Louis XVI • Grandson of Louis XV • Marie Antoinette
French Absolutism in Crisis • Government needs money • Debts from wars • Solutions?
French Absolutism in Crisis • Louis XVI pressured to convene the Estates-General • Represented each estate • Voting System • Problems?
French Absolutism in Crisis • Estates-General convenes • Cahiers de doleances
The French Revolution • On June 17, 1789, the Third Estate calls itself the National Assembly • Tennis Court Oath
The French Revolution • The Fall of the Bastille • Parisians march to the Bastille on July 14, 1789
The French Revolution • The Great Fear (August 1789) • Peasants revolt in the countryside
The French Revolution • National Constituent Assembly issues the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 27, 1789 • Women march on Versailles
The French Revolution • Constitutional monarchy declared • Constitution of 1791
The French Revolution • Civil Constitution of the Clergy • Flight to Varennes
The French Revolution • Declaration of Pillnitz • Austria and Prussia will intervene to protect French monarchy
The French Revolution • Factions appear • Royal family under arrest on August 10, 1792 • Prussia attacks France on September 21, 1792
The French Revolution • Louis XVI on trial • THE MONARCHY IS ABOLISHED