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August 5 1789 to August 10 1792

August 5 1789 to August 10 1792. Whose Revolution is this anyway?. The Constituent Assembly at Versailles. August 5-11: August Decrees, Watered down version August 4 th promises. September: stalemate between monarchists and radicals in the Assembly causes unrest in Paris

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August 5 1789 to August 10 1792

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  1. August 5 1789 to August 10 1792 • Whose Revolution is this anyway?

  2. The Constituent Assembly at Versailles • August 5-11: August Decrees, Watered down version August 4th promises. • September: stalemate between monarchists and radicals in the Assembly causes unrest in Paris • October 1st 1789: The Fundamental Principles of Government “The person of the King is sacred and inviolable”

  3. The King at Versailles • Failed to ratify any of the new legislation • Had not returned to Paris for over two months • Summoned the Flanders regiment who were treated to a banquet at which they trampled the revolutionary cockade.

  4. Enter the Fishwives On October the 5th a large crowd, predominantly female, gathered outside the Hotel d’Ville to protest against rising food costs. The decision was made to march on Versailles where they could protest directly to the King.

  5. 5th October 1789 The March on Versailles • March arrives at 5:30 pm demanding bread • The King accedes to their wishes • By 11:00 pm Lafayette arrives with National Guard, King agrees to ratify Assembly’s decrees • At 2:00 am hardcore group of fishwives break into the queen’s apartments, kill two of the guards and are only stopped by the diplomacy of Lafayette. • Once again the people of Paris have the initiative and the National Assembly along with the royal family are escorted back to Paris on October 6th.

  6. Government at the Tuileries Palace • 21st October 1789: Martial law decreed • From October 1789 to June 1791 Assembly remakes France.

  7. Reforms • November 1789: Nationalisation of Church Property • February 1790: Creation of Departments • March 1790: Abolition of honorary distinctions • May 1790: The metric system • June 1790: Abolition of titles • July 1790: Civil constitution of the clergy • August 1790: Legal system and military • October 1790: Internal tariffs • June 1791: Prohibition of unions

  8. 14th July 1790 Fete de la Federation

  9. July 1790 Civil Constitution of the clergy • Pope’s secular authority denied • Reduction of diocese • Voting for office holders by non-catholic laity • November 1790: The clerical oath

  10. Responses • Parisians threaten non-juring or ‘refractory’ priests • Papal Bull – Charitas calls the faithful to stand • Provincial riots in support of church • William Doyle: “For the first time, it forced fellow citizens to choose: to declare themselves for or against the new order”

  11. 20th June 1791 The Flight to Varennes Held in the Tuileries as virtual prisoners of the people, the royal family donned disguises and left for Luxembourg where Austrian troops would escort them to safety. Louis’ note accused the new government of introducing anarchy and said that he would not return until a new constitution was written which ‘shall cause our holy religion to be respected, the government to be established on a firm foundation and made useful by its functioning.’

  12. Response The people of Paris felt betrayed and greeted the return of the royal family with stony silence; the nation’s father had dismissed their revolution. The Constituent Assembly wanted their revolution to stay on track and some argued that the royal family had been kidnapped but suspended royal executive powers until the constitution was complete.

  13. 16th July 1791 The Champ de Mars massacre • Cordeliers club petition calling for abdication of Louis - • ‘You gentleman, have judged in advance that he was innocent and inviolable…legislators! This was not the will of the people, and we had thought that your greatest glory, even your duty, consisted of being agents of the public will.’

  14. Champ de Mars The petitioners gathered to sign the petition, La Fayette ordered his troops to fire on the crowd when they refused to disperse and instead threw rocks at the soldiers. Fifty people died. The new regime began to appear to the sans culottes as having a different agenda.

  15. 13th September 1791 The new constitution - Whose revolution is this? • Franchise based on income: those who paid the equivalent of three day’s wages in tax • Public office limited to those who paid a silver mark in tax

  16. The Declaration of War • 27th August 1791 Declaration of Pilnitz pledges Austrian and Prussian alliance for Louis’ aid. • 20th April 1792 Assembly declares war on Austria and invades Netherlands • Austrian and Prussian force crush French army and advance toward Paris • The journee of 20th June Tuileries invaded • 11th July Le Patrie en danger – citizens of Paris are armed

  17. 25th July 1792 The Brunswick Manifesto • Threat to Parisians that if the King was harmed, the city would be destroyed • Radicals gain control as fear of invaders rises • Revolutionary commune takes charge of Paris and Federe Troops

  18. 10th August 1792 • Storming of the Tuileries

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