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The French Revolution "Liberal" Phase: 1789-1791. The French Monarchy: 1775 - 1793. Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette and the Royal Children. Marie Antoinette’s “Peasant Cottage”. Marie Antoinette’s “Peasant Cottage”. The Necklace Scandal.
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The French Revolution "Liberal" Phase: 1789-1791
The French Monarchy:1775 - 1793 Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI
The Necklace Scandal 1,600,000 livres[$100 million today] • Cardinal Louis René Édouard de Rohan • The Countess de LaMotte
Let Them Eat Cake! • “Madame Deficit” • “The Austrian Whore”
Financial Problemsin France, 1789 • Urban Commoner’sBudget: • Food 80% • Rent 25% • Tithe 10% • Taxes 35% • Clothing 20% • TOTAL 170% • King’s Budget: • Interest 50% • Army 25% • Versailles 25% • Coronation 10% • Loans 25% • Admin. 25% • TOTAL 160%
Convening the Estates General May, 1789 Last time it was called into session was 1614!
The Suggested Voting Pattern:Voting by Estates Clergy 1st Estate 1 Aristocracy 2nd Estate 1 1 Commoners 3rd Estate
The Number of Representativesin the Estates General: Vote by Head! Clergy 1st Estate 300 Aristocracy 2nd Estate 300 648 Commoners 3rd Estate
“The Tennis Court Oath”by Jacques Louis David June 20, 1789
Lettres de Cachet • The French king could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal. • A carte-blanche warrant. • Cardinal Fleury issued 80,000 during the reign of Louis XV! • Eliminated in 1790.
The Great Fear:Peasant Revolt July 20, 1789
March of the Women,October 5-6, 1789 We want the baker, the baker’s wife and the baker’s boy!
National Constituent Assembly1789 - 1791 Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! August Decrees(August 4-11, 1789) • Equality & Meritocracy
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen August 26,1789
The Tricolor (1789) The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of Paris. Citizen!
83 Revolutionary Departments February 26, 1790
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy July 12,1790 Juryingvs.Non-JuryingClergy
Assignats They were backed by the sale of Church lands.
Louis XVI “Accepts” the Constitution & the National Assembly. 1791
The French Constitution of 1791: A Bourgeois Government • The king got the “suspensive” veto [which prevented the passage of laws for 3 years].* he could not pass laws.* his ministers were responsible for their own actions. • A permanent, elected, single chamber National Assembly.* had the power to grant taxation. • An independent judiciary. • “Active” Citizen vs. “Passive” Citizen.
The Cordeliers • The Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. • Organized in 1790. • It provided a political base for Danton and Marat. • It eventually drifted to the extreme left after Marat’s death. • Taken over by Jacques Réne Hébert and the Hébertists, who controlled the Paris Commune. • Called for the deposition of the king.
The Champs de Mar Massacre (July 17, 1791) • Led by the Cordeliers. • Put down by the Marquis de Lafayette and the newly-created National Guard. 1757 – 1834
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES • “Hist210—Europe in the Age of Revolutions.”http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/courses/europe1/chron/rch5.htm • “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality: Exploring the French Revolution.”http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/ • Matthews, Andrew. Revolution and Reaction: Europe, 1789-1849. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001. • “The Napoleonic Guide.” http://www.napoleonguide.com/index.htm