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The French Revolution!

The French Revolution!. Louis Failed Attempt At Escape Causes a Split…. The moderate Girondins wanted to keep a constitutional monarchy. The radical Jacobins wanted the king to be gone!. VS. A New Constitution. After two years of arguing, the National Assembly created a new constitution.

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The French Revolution!

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  1. The French Revolution!

  2. Louis Failed Attempt At Escape Causes a Split… The moderate Girondins wanted to keep a constitutional monarchy. The radical Jacobins wanted the king to be gone! VS.

  3. A New Constitution After two years of arguing, the National Assembly created a new constitution. This new constitution created a limited constitutional monarchy. It also created a new legislative body (the Legislative Assembly) which could create laws and approve or reject declaration of war. The king still has executive power.

  4. Other Divisions Outside the Legislative Assembly, there are other divisions as well. The Émigrés (nobles and others who had fled from France) hoped to undo the Revolution and restore the Old Regime. The Sans-Culottes (“those without knee breeches”) were the Parisian workers and small shopkeepers who wanted the Revolution to bring even more change to France.

  5. Outside of France Outside of France, neighboring countries worried that France’s revolutionary fever was contagious. To keep it away, they issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which insisted that the French return Louis XVI to the throne. The French saw this as hostile, so the Girondin-led assembly declared war on Austria and Prussia.

  6. Mob Mentality Strikes Again The war began badly for France. When a Prussian commander threatened to destroy Paris if a member of the royal family was hurt, the French were panicked again and another mob formed. The mob murdered the royal guard and imprisoned Louis, Marie Antoinette, and their children.

  7. Mob Mentality Strikes Again A new rumor begins that the supporters of the royal family were planning to break out of prison and take over the city. Angry and terrified citizens raided the prisons and murdered over 1,000 prisoners. Under pressure of the radicals, the Legislative Assembly got rid of the old constitution, declared the king powerless, and elected new legislation called the National Convention. They announced that France was now a republic.

  8. The Jacobin's Reign of Terror During this time the radical group, the Jacobins, slowly took control and power. Led by the Jacobins, the National Convention tried Louis XVI for treason, found him guilty and executed him.

  9. The Jacobin’s also had to address the war with Austria and Prussia and so the National Convention took an extreme step and ordered a draft of 300,000 French citizens, between the ages of 18 to 40, including women.

  10. Jacobin’s Reign of Terror Not everyone liked what the Jacobin’s were doing. Many had found the execution of the king to be a step too far. The Committee of Public Safety was created with the chief task to protect the Revolution from its enemies. The Jacobin’s, now led by Maximilien Robespierre, wanted to create a “republic of virtue” by wiping away France’s past he soon became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety.

  11. The Reign of Terror Had Begun… Reign of Terror Sketch-to-Stretch

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