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(697-704 review) 704-712 - Identify the various stages of the French Revolution. - Describe the steps toward a Republican France. Quiz:. Pattern of Revolutions. Hatred of authoritative regime . Return of the old, Authoritative regime. Liberal reforms begin.
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(697-704 review)704-712 - Identify the various stages of the French Revolution. - Describe the steps toward a Republican France.
Pattern of Revolutions Hatred of authoritative regime Return of the old, Authoritative regime Liberal reforms begin Extreme Radicalism begins Gustavson then further divides the pattern into seven stages or phases.
Stages of the French Revolution • Stage 1 – Rising discontent as writers begin to denounce existing conditions. (early to mid 1700s) • Stage 2 – Public dissatisfaction culminates in riots and other acts of violence. (Summer 1789) • Stage 3 – Ruling group is intimidated into making concessions. (late1789) • Stage 4 – Reformers carry out their ideas (~1791) • Stage 5 – The new reforms divide the nation into rival groups • Stage 6 – Radicals seize power and try to impose their views on the nations. • Stage 7 – The public tires of the radicals and moderates restore order.
Stages of the French Revolution • Stage 1 – Rising discontent as writers begin to denounce existing conditions (early to mid 1700s) • Voltaire • Rousseau • American Revolution “Declaration of Independence” • Stage 2 – Public dissatisfaction leads to acts of violence. (Summer 1789) • Storming of the Bastille • The Great Fear • Bread Riots in Paris • Women’s March on Versailles • Stage 3 – Ruling group is intimidated into making concessions (late1789) • Louis XVI and family are forced to move from Versailles to Paris • Louis XVI accepts new constitution limiting his powers • Nobility/Clergy give up privileges in National Assembly • Stage 4 – Reformers carry out their ideas (~1791) • National Assembly creates a Constitutional Monarchy • Provinces abolished, replaced with 83 departments • Established state control the church – “Civil Constitution of the Clergy”
Stages of the French Revolution • Stage 1 – Rising discontent as writers begin to denounce existing conditions. (early to mid 1700s) • Stage 2 – Public dissatisfaction culminates in riots and other acts of violence. (Summer 1789) • Stage 3 – Ruling group is intimidated into making concessions. (late1789) • Stage 4 – Reformers carry out their ideas (~1791) • Stage 5 – The new reforms divide the nation into rival groups (early 1792)
Stages of the French Revolution • Stage 5 – Rival groups develop (1791 - early 1792) • Edmund Burke – “Reflections on the French Revolution” • Mary Wollstonecraft – “Vindication of the Rights of Man” and “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) • Olympe de Gouges – “Declaration of the Rights of Women”. • Radical groups emerge • Jacobin Club – young, middle-class wanted a republic • Girondists – wanted to end monarchy • The Mountain – more radical faction of Jacobins led by Robbespierre & Danton. • The National Assembly disbands, creates “Legislative Assembly” • Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette attempt to flee France in 1791 • “Declaration of Pillnitz” – (1791) Austria and Prussia issue a warning about the revolution getting out of control, Legislative Assembly declares war on Austrian King Francis II (1792). • Panic stricken crowds attack the Tuileries (royal palace in Paris) and arrest the king, Legislative Assembly suspends monarchy (8/1792) called the “Second Revolution”.
Stages of the French Revolution • Stage 1 – Rising discontent as writers begin to denounce existing conditions. (early to mid 1700s) • Stage 2 – Public dissatisfaction culminates in riots and other acts of violence. (Summer 1789) • Stage 3 – Ruling group is intimidated into making concessions. (late1789) • Stage 4 – Reformers carry out their ideas (~1791) • Stage 5 – The new reforms divide the nation into rival groups • Stage 6 – Radicals seize power and try to impose their views on the nations. • Stage 7 – The public tires of the radicals and moderates restore order.
Stage 6 (1792-93) Radicals seize power and impose their views on the people • Legislative Assembly writes new constitution and renames itself the National Convention declaring France a “republic” 9/1792 – called the Second Revolution. • The Convention executes Louis XVI for treason 1/1793. • Sans culottes join with the “Mountain” to dominate the Convention. • “Planned Economy” set up • Committee of Public Safety and the “Reign of Terror”.
Stage 7: Public tires of Radicals and Moderates regain power to restore order (1794-99) • Thermidorian Reaction – 7/27/1794 • “The Directory” is formed 1795-1799 as a five-man executive branch, but ruled as dictators. • Villagers in rural France and the Catholic Church restore a more normal lifestyle 1795-1799 • Napoleon’s “coup d’ e`tat” 1799 ends the Directory and Napoleon begins his rule as emperor of France. Execution of Robespierre
Pattern of Revolutions Hatred of authoritative regime Return of the old, Authoritative regime Liberal reforms begin Extreme Radicalism begins Describe how the French Revolution “fits” Gustavson’s pattern of revolutions.