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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
What led to it?- underlying causes, sve do immediate cause
a)social –> Roman Catholic Church+clergy= FIRST ESTATE
rich nobles=SECOND ESTATE
merchants, artisans, workers, peasants=THIRD ESTATE
b)economic –>weak financial system-expensiveness, unequal tax; famine; wars(7 years war& The revolutionary war in america)
c)political –> loss of colonies(The Seven Years’ war), “lex rex”-King is the law
d)ideological –> enlightenment ideas, GB and USA influence
Second Estate forced King Louis XVI. to call a meeting of THE ESTATES-GENERAL in 1789.(representatives of all 3 estates)to get approval for tax reform, main problem HOW TO VOTE- by estates or deputies??
May 1789. - Third estate with some members of the first= National Assembly –> National Constituent Assembly(wanted to form a constitution)
citizens of Paris formed NATIONAL GUARD led by hero of american war of independence - Marquis de La Fayette
meeting of THE ESTATES-GENERAL
1789., King Louis XVI. ,forced by 2nd estate, to get approval for tax reform, main problem HOW TO VOTE- by estates or deputies??
National Assembly
May 1789. - Third estate with some members of the first= National Assembly –> National Constituent Assembly(wanted to form a constitution)
Marquis de La Fayette
hero of american war of independence , with citizens of Paris formed NATIONAL GUARD
IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF FRENCH REVOLUTION
July 14, 1789. , crowd of Parisians rushed to Bastille Fortress - SYMBOL OF ROYAL ABSOLUTISM
fall of Bastille became a symbolic act of revolution
new social order
Constituent Assembly established a new social order –> abolished serfdom, confiscated church property, equality of citizens
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (izvor str. 55)
August, 1789. by National Constituent Assembly
-reflecting influence of Enlightment ideas - men are born and remain free and equal in rights, preservation of natural rights of man is the aim=liberty, property, security, resistance
-The expression LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY became slogan of the Revolution
slogan of the Revolution
The expression LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, coming from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Legislative Assembly
September 1791. National Assembly completed its CONSTITUTION and handed its power to the The Legislative Assembly
THE JACOBINS - Maximilien Robespierre, Paul Marat, Georges Danton - wanted to remove the king&monarchy&establish a republic - republican programme
THE GIRONDINES - Jacques Pierre Brissot, Madame Marie Jeanne Roland - liberals who advocated for aristocratic republic
THE JACOBINS
Maximilien Robespierre, Paul Marat, Georges Danton - wanted to remove the king&monarchy&establish a republic - republican programme
THE GIRONDINES
Jacques Pierre Brissot, Madame Marie Jeanne Roland - liberals who advocated for aristocratic republic
The National Convention
September 21st 1792. - France declared a REPUBLIC because in april people of Paris took custody of Louis XVI. and that ended the constitutional monarchy
The Battle of Valmy
20th September 1792. , 1st victory of a citizen army against the Coalition of Habsburg Monarchy&Prussia
-inspired by liberty and nationalism
-next day they abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the French Republic(21st September)
Second Constitution
1793., Louis XVI was beheaded on the guillotine, the Jacobins expelled the Girondines and took control=Second Constitution
Reign of Terror, beginning+reforms+end
BEGINNING of the reign of terror=
Roberspierre and his followers expelled Girondines, made a new Constitution in 1793.
The Committee of Public Safety was founded by Jacobins in 1793. , Robespierre became a dictator and decided who should be considered enemies of the republic
-mass executions
-new calendar(without Sunday)
-closed all churches in Paris
-Christianity abolished and replaced with CULT OF REASON
-ended in 1794 when Thermidorians (membersof the National Convention) executed Robespierre
Thermidorians
members of National Convention who turned on Robespierre
-got him executed in 1794
-Reign of Terror ended
The Third Constitution
1795., replaced by the National Convention
-executive body–>The Directory(5)
-legislative bodies–>The Council of 500&The Council of Elders
CONSEQUENCES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
-the beginning of the civil society
-civil marriage&divorce
-separation of church&state
-Vive la Nation! - motto, long live the nation
-La Marseillaise(marseljeza)-national anthem of France
-Tricolore - the flag of France(liberte-blue, egalite-white, fraternite-red)
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
1797 - Treaty of Campoformio, Napoleon won and ended of Venetian Republic
-instead of invading England he invaded Egypt to destroy British trade with the Middle East and India
1798-expedition to Egypt –> lost in the Battle of Nile by British fleet(Lord Horatio Nelson), with his fleet in Abu Qir Bay
-organised a number of scientist to study Egypt and they founded Egyptology
Coup d’Etat
blow of state, 1799.
-Napoleon took control of the French government and replaced the Directory with a CONSULATE
-Napoleon became the FIRST CONSUL
concordat (Napoleon +?)
1801 - signed a concordat with Pope Pius VII (religious freedom, confiscated church lands)
first consul for life
1802 - Napoleon became first consul for life(plebiscite)
Napoloenic Code
Code Civil, 1804.
-first modern legal code, basis of modern society:
abolition of social privileges
secularization(civil marriage)
inviolability of property
freedom&equality of citizens
Napoleon as emperor
1804., Napoleon decided to make himself emperor
-he was crowned in Notre Dame Cathedral, and placed the crown HIMSELF on his head, signaling that he is more powerful than the church which had crowned French rulers for centuries
Battle of Trafalgar
- commander of British fleet Horatio Nelson defeated the French fleet, which gave Britain control of the seas and ended any chances of Napoleon invading Britain
Battle of Austerlitz
Three Emperors’ Battle, 1805.
-Napoleon demolished Austrian&Russian armies
-Treaty of Pressburg(Požun, Bratislava) - Austria lost Venice, Istria & Dalmatia, Holy Roman Empire dissolved=the Confederation of Rhine(Rajnski savez)
the Confederation of Rhine(Rajnski savez)
1805., with the Treaty of Pressburg, Napoleon formed the Confederation of Rhine –>16 German states under Napoleon’s protection