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The Financial Crisis

The Financial Crisis. Starting task. In your teams, use the timeline in your course book to sort the 14 cards that you’ve been given into their chronological order The first team to successfully order their cards will win a prize!. The Financial Crisis – In Chronological Order Compte Rendu

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The Financial Crisis

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  1. The Financial Crisis

  2. Starting task • In your teams, use the timeline in your course book to sort the 14 cards that you’ve been given into their chronological order • The first team to successfully order their cards will win a prize!

  3. The Financial Crisis – In Chronological Order • CompteRendu • Necker dismissed; Calonne appointed • Assembly of Notables called; failed to agree with reforms • Calonne dismissed: Brienne appointed • Reforms sent to Parlement of Paris: Parlement rejects them and is exiled • Parlement of Paris recalled • Royal session of the Paris Parlement: Attempt to forcibly pass reforms • Paris Parlement declares ‘Fundamental Laws of Kingdom’ • The May Edicts: All Parlements are stripped of their powers • The Aristocratic revolt begins • Riots in Rennes • Clergy vote to provide a very small ‘Don gratuit’ to the King • The Day of Tiles in Grenoble • Brienne capitulates and calls the Estates General

  4. Jacques Necker Controller-General 1777-81, 1788-89 By Joseph Duplessis

  5. Necker – “compterendu”, 1781

  6. Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776

  7. “Day of the Tiles” – Grenoble, 7 June 1788

  8. What can you expect for the exam? • Using three or four points, explain how xxxxxxxxxx contributed to the development of a revolutionary situation in France. • Jacques Necker’s CompteRendu • The failure of the Assembly of Notables to agree on reform • The Parlement of Paris • Louis XVI’s actions… • Can you suggest a question that might be asked?

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