4.3 Flashcards
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The Estates General
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- it represented the three estates
- half of the delegates were from the third estate (shows balance of power)
- third estates were legal and urban
- the nobility were liberal minded
- big parts of each estate had ties in youth, urban background, and hostility to privileges
- there were two groups: 1. parlement of paris 2. patriots
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The parlement of paris
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- nobles of the robe
- wanted a system of voting that would give aristocratic control over reforms and was by order
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The patriots
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- one group is Society of Thirty
- bourgeoisie and nobles made them up
- they were enlightened
- they wanted reason and utility (?) to guide them
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National Assembly
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they wanted a SINGLE CHAMBERED LEGISLATIVE
- the first and second estate wanted to vote by order, but the third estate wanted to vote by head AND LIBERAL NOBLES AND CLERICS SUPPORTED THEM
- the third estate wanted for all the estates to join together to discuss this, but the king refused
- they then created the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY in response to the king’s refusal
- at the tennis court, they swore that they would continue to meet until they created a french constitution THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION
- the third estate was led by abbe sieyes
- the BOURGEOISIE were leading the revolution
- the king threatened to dissolve the ESTATE GENERAL (NOT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY because he didn’t recognize the assembly) and this leads to the intervention of the common people
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The intervention of the Common People
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- the king was threatening to stop the revolution by using force, but the COMMON PEOPLE continued to fight the rich and aristocrats (including the bourgeoisie) whom they thought were trying to destroy the estates general and keep their own privileges, in urban and rural uprising
- bastille is an example of an urban rising
- they fought in paris and other parts of france
- after the fall of bastille, the king realized he could no longer enforce his will because his troops were unreliable so he “okayed” the National Guard as a CITIZEN MILITIA
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Bastille
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- the king brought in more troops to defend the roads and arsenals from mobs created by the common people
- the people were then mad and then captured bastille
- bastille was a fortress and prison holding few prisoners and was in Paris
- the fall of bastille was a popular symbol of triumph over despotism
- it pushed paris to the forefront of the revolution
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Agrarian Peasant Rebellions
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- the peasants were mad at the lord system, the fees, glories? of estate holders
- after the bastille and KING COULDN’T CONTROL THE THIRD ESTATE, the peasants began to revolt
- they were revolting in “blind fury”
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The Great Fear
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- the agrarian peasant rebellions caused the great fear where people were scared of invasion of foreign troops and the fear of aristocrats coming back into power
- they started to create citizen’s militias and permanent committees (representing organization)
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The National Assembly and Feudalism or aristocratic privileges
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they wanted to abolish feudalism and the privileges of aristocrats to CALM the peasants (agrarian peasant rebellions) and some thought it was RIGHT thing to do it instead of POLITICALLY
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The Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
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- this document was the founding principles and REASON for their actions
- this document said that all men were “born and remain free and equal in rights”
- the natural rights included the rights to “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression”
- the aristocrats no longer had privileges because everyone had equal share to office and no more tax exemption
- because everyone could participate in government and have offices based on talent, this limited the monarchy and hurt the aristocats privileges
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Women’s Rights
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-the declaration of rights of man and citizen got people to wonder if equal rights included women
-women got rights to inherit property and divorce, but not in voting and holding political office
olympe de gouges is important in this
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Women’s March to Versaille
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- at first, louis refused to put in the declaration of rights and abolishing feudalism
- then, women marched to versaille demanding bread and WANTED THE ROYAL FAMILY TO MOVE TO PARIS
- the national guard also followed them
- finally, louis agreed to give food and ACCEPTED THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY’S DECREES
- the PARISIAN CROWD AFFECTED and caused the king to agree INSTEAD OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
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Olympe de Gouges
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- she wrote a declaration of rights of woman and the female citizen
- believed women should have the same rights as man
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The Catholic Church
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- the church was SECULARIZED through the new Civil Constitution of Clergy
- ASSIGNATS were given out because they needed money
- for the pope forbade the oath in the constituion, half of the clergy didn’t do it. this caused the catholic church to become an enemy of the revolution. the church was still an important part of the french people, and the opposition of the church created a base for a counterrevolution
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The Civil Constitution of Clergy
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- the lands owned by the church were taken
- bishops and priests were to be elected by the people and paid by the state (THEY ARE NOW EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE INSTEAD OF THE CHURCH)
- the clergy is to take a loyalty oath of the support the government INSTEAD OF THE CHURCH
