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La R ésistance

La R ésistance. Combat de notre prope guerre avac Napoleon. La R ésistance. Based in Paris, France. An underground paper for the Revolution, but against Napoleon. Contributors: L’oiseau-Caroline Patelli Lorraine LeDoux -Lauren Patelli Le Bombeche-Haley Williams.

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La R ésistance

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  1. La Résistance Combat de notre prope guerre avac Napoleon

  2. La Résistance • Based in Paris, France. • An underground paper for the Revolution, but against Napoleon. • Contributors: • L’oiseau-Caroline Patelli • Lorraine LeDoux -Lauren Patelli • Le Bombeche-Haley Williams

  3. Articles • Sports • Leading Personalities • Flight to Varennes • Great Fear • Committee on Public Safety • Tennis Court Oath • Science • Catholic Church • Nation in Arms • Napoleon’s Rise to Power

  4. Nouvelles dans le Monde Spotif News in the Sporting World • Undefeated racing horse named Eclipse died on May 5, 1769. “eclipse first, the rest nowhere.” • John Sackville, the third Duke of Dorset, organized then cancelled a tour of France by British cricketers following outbreak of the Revolution. • Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) created and also canceled a tour of France due to Revolution. http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4857083/145386_Full.jpg

  5. LEADING PERSONALITIES • Marie Antoinette • Napoleon Bonaparte • Robespierre • Marquis de Lafayette • Louis XVI • Toussaint L’ouverture http://michaelscomments.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/marie_antoinette_a_la_rose_1783_oil_on_canvas2.jpg

  6. Marie et la course de dauphin en l'Autriche, et roi va gaffer ensuite Marie and the Dauphin run to Austria, and the king goes bumbling after • King Louis tried to flee after revolts broke out in the country. • Royal family forced to move back to Paris from Versailles. • On June 20, 1791, the royal family and an assembly of servants attempted to flee France for Austria. • Stopped in Varennes and forced back to Paris. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/FlighttoVarennesKingLouisXVI.jpg

  7. Vers le Haut de Dans la Fumee Up in Smoke • Suspicions of an aristocratic conspiracy of a counter revolution spurred a violent uprising by the dwellers of French countryside. • This terrifying hysteria resulted in burnings of châteaux, monasteries and homes of important financial and official documents. • Another resonating occurrence of the Grande Peur (Great Fear) was the seizing of the Bastille by a Parisian mob of 600-1,000 insurgents; the Bastille was defended by little more than 114 Royal troops. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11956/11956-h/images/256.jpg

  8. Sécurité Publique dans le PérilPublic Safety in Jeopardy • 1793- the Committee of Public Safety was founded by the National Convention. • Led by Robespierre, The Committee became the real center of power in the French Empire and lessened the power of the government. • The Committee of Public Safety was responsible for many high profile executions with the use of the guillotine. • Those who were being executed were supporters of the French monarchy and opposed to the Revolution. http://stillfootball.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/robespierre.gif

  9. Au Nom du Sport In the Name of Sport • Feeling threatened, King Louis XVI locked the National Assembly from their meeting place Menus Plaisirs. • Instead of abandoning their movement for equality among the Estates and change in the government the group moved their meeting to an indoor tennis court • The members rocked the French government and aristocracy that day by passing a bold new constitution by voting by heads, which gave the much forgotten and oppressed Third Estate majority in the vote. http://bss.sfsu.edu/jacksonc/H111/FrenchRev-g/french-court_signitures.jpg

  10. Avancements Scientifiques pendant la Révolution Scientific Advancements during the Revolution • The Revolution brought about the reform of the chaotic system of weights and measures. The result was the metric system of basic units the meter, gram, and liter. • Finding and extracting saltpeter for use in making gunpowder in 1792. Similar energy was applied to research into steel making, munitions, copper, and sodium carbonate. • In 1794, in Paris, the first telegraph was invented by Lille. William Herschel has discovered the existence of infrared solar rays recently in 1800, and two years later discovered binary stars which is a system of two stars that revolve about their common center of mass. http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/images/herschel.gif Herschel demonstrating infrared technology.

  11. L'église de la France The Church of France • In 1790, the Civil Constitution of Clergy was put into effect. • Popes and bishops elected by the state, paid by the state, forced to swear allegiance to the state. • National Convention removed Catholicism and religion from the government. • Drew up new calendar that started on September 22, 1792, the day the Revolution started.

  12. NATION IN ARMS • After the execution of King Louis, a majority of Europe drew up an alliance against the French. • Committee of Public Safety decreed a universal mobilization of the nation. • Even if not in the army, the whole country had to help the war effort. http://www.astrogeodata.it/307a9550.jpg

  13. Pays d’Abord Country First • Nationalism is defined as “patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts” • French Nationalism during the start of the French Revolution was all together nonexistent. People were suspicious and against each other and especially the government and aristocracy. • However threats of war and occupation by the Austrians and British became a rallying point for all of France. • Win or lose, France was united to fight against enemies and rebuild their country. http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/Pillar10-History-French-Revolution-Delacroix.jpg

  14. Napoleon' élévation de s à la puissance Napoleon’s Rise to Power • His military education led to his commission in 1785 as a lieutenant. • In 1792, he became a captain and in the following year performed so well as an artillery commander that he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1794, when he was only twenty-five. • In October 1795, he saved the National Convention from the Parisian mob and in 1796 was made commander of the French army in Italy. • In 1799, at only thirty years old, Napoleon became a virtual dictator of France. • In 1802 he was made consul for life and in 1804 returned France to a monarchy when he crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I. http://pictures.deadlycomputer.com/d/10935-2/napoleon.jpg

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