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The French Revolution

The French Revolution. New Order vs. Old Order. Unflattering cartoon of the royal couple. More anti-Louis XVI cartoons…. “The Awakening of the Third Estate”. The first and second estates riding the third estate…

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The French Revolution

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  1. The French Revolution New Order vs. Old Order

  2. Unflattering cartoon of the royal couple

  3. More anti-Louis XVI cartoons…

  4. “The Awakening of the Third Estate”

  5. The first and second estates riding the third estate… …revolutionary political cartoon making a point about the burdens of the third estate.

  6. Women were invaluable in starting much of the agitation that led to a full-fledged revolution in France.

  7. 1st Estate: Clergy (.5% of pop.) 2nd Estate: Nobility (1.5% of pop.) 3rd Estate: Bourgeoisie, workers and peasants (98% of the pop.)

  8. The Storming of the Bastille (a symbol of royal oppression to the French people)

  9. The Bastille was dismantled brick by brick…

  10. …the Bastille today.

  11. The Great Fear 1789 Panic swept the countryside as nobles and clergymen became targets of angry revolutionaries

  12. Church lands were confiscated…

  13. Sans Culottes (“without breeches”): French revolutionary soldiers

  14. Symbols of the Revolution: tricolor sash, red cap of liberty and the pike.

  15. Upon his capture by revolutionaries, Louis XVI donned the red cap of liberty and drank a toast to the revolution

  16. Louis XVI pictured as a drunkard in this revolution cartoon…

  17. The public execution of Louis XVI by the guillotine, which would emerge as an symbol of the revolution

  18. The Execution of Marie Antoinette

  19. British political cartoon, “Hell Broke Loose or The Murder of Louis”

  20. Another British cartoon portraying the French Revolution as a threat to England. Notice the red cap and the pike approaching via the English Channel

  21. Louis XVI Arrives in Hell: Louis is pictured entering hell carrying his head. Notice the other headless figures in the painting

  22. Some attractive commemorative revolutionary china picturing the execution of Louis XVI…

  23. More dinnerware: a gravy boat with the red cap of liberty and the scales of justice…

  24. Legislative Assembly Seating: Right Side: Royalists (thought Revolution went too far) Center: Moderate reformers (pleased with limited monarchy) Left Side: Jacobins (thought the Revolution needed to go much further)

  25. Revolutionary Language: You= vous (formal) You= tu (informal) Vous eradicated—denoting no superior position. Monsieur and Madame became Citizen & Citizeness.

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