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Louis XV (r. 1715-1774)

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Battled an aggressive nobility
Lettres de Cachet (could arrest w/o crime)
Seven Years War 1756-1763 (lost war, territories)
-“after me, the disaster”

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The Old Regime

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The 3 Estates

  • First: Clergy
  • Second: Nobles (robe and sword)
  • Third: Everyone else (middle class, peasants)

((Monarchy, old Christian calendar))

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Louis XVI (r. 1774-1792) ‘s Problems

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  • Inflation
  • The “Feudal Reaction” (going to increase taxes on peasants)
  • War Debt (American Revolution, sent money/soldiers)
  • Taxation System (corvée and the Taille)
  • The Parlements (refused to allow increased taxes)
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Corvée

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Peasants obligation to work a certain number of days for the lord without pay

(Clergy, nobility don’t pay taxes)

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Jacques Turgot (1727-1781)

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Minister from 1774-1776

-opposed the corvée; thought they should be paid

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Jacques Necker (1737-1804)

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Finance Minister from 1777-1773 and 1788-1789

  • relied on borrowing
  • revealed extravagant royal spending
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Loménie de Brienne (1727-1794)

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Finance minister from 1787-1788
The Estates General (called in July 1788)…
-last met in 1614

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The Problem of the Estates General

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  • The First and Second Estate always voted together
  • The number of the third estate is doubled, they now have a numerical majority, but the majority is useless if they vote by order (Doubling of the Third)
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Emmanuel Sieyes

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‘What is the Third Estate?’ -pamphlet

  • “Common Sense” of French Revolution
  • middle class
  • “third estate is everything”
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Caheirs de Doléances

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  • Lists of complaints drawn up by each estate
  • All estates proposed similar reforms
  • could not be discussed until the voting method was settled

One vote for each estate

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Tennis Court Oath

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The Third Estate walks out (June 17, 1789) -promise to themselves they won’t disband until a new government is formed (National Assembly)

-Members of the 1st and 2nd estate join the National Assembly

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Storm of Bastille (Spark)

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Parisians storm the Bastille (prison)

  • king supposedly imprisoned people he didn’t like there for no reason; actually only 5 people inside that were bad people
  • took weapon, risen up, revolution is inevitable
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National Assembly abolishes….

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Feudalism (August 4, 1789)

-don’t have power to do that….

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The Great Fear (Late July, 1789)

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  • sweeps the countryside

- mobs of people in countryside storm the castles of their feudal lords; angry about taxes, corvée, being treated poorly

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Women Riot in Paris

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October 5-6, 1789
Women riot in Paris, March to Versailles
-Louis was at a Versailles; tell King and queen to come to Paris

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Late 1789

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Jacobin Clubs increase influence (radical)

  • many moderates become émigrés (flee to another country)
  • Constituent Assembly begins work on a new constitution (National Assembly who wrote constitution were called constituent assembly)
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 1790)

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“Refractory” vs. “Constitutional” Clergy
-Confiscation of church lands
Separates clergy, either going against revolution, or against church
-new calendar, de-christianizing, attacked foundation of French society

Constitutional supports revolution
Refractory does NOT support revolution

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Assignots

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Currency backed up by church land

-value plummeted from 1790-95

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Émigrés (Reactionary -return to old days)

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-Over 16,000 left France
-Mostly aristocrats
Counter (against revolution) revolutionaries
-Louis’ brother (count of Artois)

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Louis’ flight to Varennes

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June 20-25, 1791

-fleeing to Paris, trying to get to Austrian-Netherlands

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Declaration of Pillnitz (August 1791)

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Ferdinand II and Frederick William II threaten war
-only if England does too
A bluff intended to slow down the Revolution
Encouraged Revolution

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September 1791: the Constitution of 1791 is completed

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  • call for changes, but not dramatic changes
  • King will have less power; abide constitution
  • constitutional (limited) monarchy
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The Constitution of 1791

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-Constitutional monarchy
-Legislative assembly
Less cautious, more revolutionary than National Assembly
Many were Jacobins (radical)
-Limited suffrage (not everyone can vote) -wealthy men-based on property/land
-Reorganized France

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Olympe de Gouges

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‘Declaration of the Rights of Women’

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April 20, 1792: Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria and Prussia

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Rise of the Girondists
-Revolution now became international
Represents the failure of the Constitution of 1791

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Brunswick Manifesto

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June 25, 1792
Ferdinand the II issues Brunswick Manifesto
-threatened to attack if any members of the royal family are harmed

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August 10: Stormed Tuilleries Palace

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  • imprisoned King/queen

- begins RADICAL TAKEOVER

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Maximilian Robespierre (1758-1794)

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  • the mind behind the radical phase
  • educated as a lawyer
  • deeply influenced by Enlightenment, Rosseau
  • Began as an idealistic member of National Assembly
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Jean-Paul Morat (1743-1793)

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The main propagandist of the revolution
-anti-monarchy, anti-moderate
-published the newspaper “L’ami du People”
-murdered in his bath tub by Charlotte Corday
Became a martyr

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Georges Danton (1759-1794)

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  • inspirational leader of the revolution

- executed during the terror, which he helped create

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Why “Radical”?

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  • actions and attitudes of the King
  • war with Austria, Prussia
  • economic crisis
  • fear of counterrevolution
  • religious/political divisions
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After the Tuilleries..

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The Paris Commune is established
The Sans Culottes emerge (people w/o breeches, no socks up to knees, laboring/poor traders)
-ones who stormed the Bastille
-like mob

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The September Massacres

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  • with support of commune

- take bourgeoisie and kill them

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A New French Republic (September 20, 1792)

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Constitution of 1791 abolished
The National Convention replaces the Legislative assembly
-it is more radical
-2 man fractions (Girondists, The Mountain)
-formally abolished monarchy on September 22, 1792

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The Battle of Valmy (September 20, 1792)

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-French Armies under General Dumoriez defeats the Austrians and Prussians

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On January 15, 1793, who is executed?

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Louis XVI

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Girondists

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  • power before the provinces
  • feared influence of Sans-Culottes
  • feared the dominance of Paris in national politics
  • supported more national government centralization (feudalism)
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The Mountain

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  • power base in Paris
  • main support from Sans-culottes
  • would adopt extreme measures to achieve their goals
  • saw Paris as center of Revolution
  • more centralized (in Paris) approach to government
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1793, end of Radical Takeover

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January 1793: The Second Partition of Poland
February 1793: Britain, Soain and Netherlands join the war against France
April 1793: General Dumouriez defeats
April 1793: The Committee of Public Safety is formed

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The Committee of Public Safety

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Starts Reign of Terror when formed
Kills people (anyone that doesn't support radicals (reactionaries))
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Girondists Arrest and Expulsion…

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in May-June 1793
Girondists = country folks that are apart of national convention
-many arrested

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The levée en mass (August 1793)

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-all able-bodied men into the army

By 1794: 800,000 men

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The Uprising in the Vendée (Summer 1793)

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  • peasants revolted against conscription (draft onto army)

- Girondist inspired

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Enragés

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Jacques Hébert and the Hébertists

  • Dechristianization (Fall, 1793)
  • interested in de-christianizing France
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New Laws, September 1793

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Law of General Maximum- limited prices of grain and wages (against natural laws of economics)

  • prices would be strictly enforced
  • Hoarders rooted out and punished (farmers who hoarded until prices went up)
  • food supplies would be secured by the army
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Law of Suspects

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-Anyone not expressing enthusiastic support for the republic could be placed under arrest

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Revolutionary Tribunals

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  • people who were under law of suspects, usually found guilty
  • neighbors accused each other, third estate mostly executed
  • low execution rate for nobility (many fled)
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Law of 22 Prairial (June 10, 1794)

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Trials were now limited to deciding only on liberty OR death, defendants having no rights

  • the law was so broadly written that almost anyone could fall within its definition
  • 1,500 executed between June and July
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The Festival of the Supreme Being

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June, 1794
Made hill dedicated to new Saint
Deism

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The Battle of Fleurus (June 1794)

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France wins in Belgium

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The Execution of Robespierre (July 28, 1794)

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Robespierre was executing too many people, put him on trial (he couldn’t speak due to gunshot wound in mouth), executed him by guillotine

  • “the revolution devours its own”
  • marks the END of the Reign of Terror
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The Thermidorian Reaction

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Jacobin clubs closed
Paris Commune outlawed 
Economic restrictions lifted
Churches opened
The "White Terror" (potential for monarchists to take revenge against the regicides)
Sans Culottes lose influence
Women lose rights
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Threats to the Convention

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The Insurrection of Prairial (Year 3, 1795)

  • Paris mob attempted to overthrow convention
  • the military is called into Paris
  • 10,000 arrested or exiled
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The Constitution of Year 3

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The Directory

  • neither democratic nor royalist; somewhere in between
  • Bicameral -“2 houses” (Council of Elders, Council of 500)
  • 5 Person executive
  • two-third had to come from national convention
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The “Whiff of Grapeshot”

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Royalist uprising against Directory

  • opposed the two-thirds law
  • Napolean Bonaparte: called to stop threat
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Louis XVII (count of Artois)

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Declaration of Verona (1795) : bring monarchy back/execute regicides
-threatened to return the Old Regime

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Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals (1796)

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  • Everyone should be treated as equals
  • precursor to communism (equality for all)
  • radical
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The Coup d’état of Fructidor (September 1797)

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“bloody revolution”

  • elections of 1797 favored royalists and conservative
  • original members of the directory threw out the election results
  • depended on Napolean’s army for support
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The Treaty of Campo Formio (October 1797)

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Peace treaty with Austria and Prussia

-solidified French gains in Italy and Belgium

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Napoleon’s Coup d’état of 18 Brumaire (November 9, 1799)

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Wanted Napoleon to defeat England in Egypt; loses to England

  • he returns and tells France they won; decide to drop Directory, make Napoleon leader
  • Government thinks they would be able to control him, but he had ideas of his own…
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Edmund Burke

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Reflects on Revolution

“revolution is unproductive”

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The Continental system…

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Was organized by Napoleon to exclude British Goods from France and its allies in an effort to bring down Britain

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The Thermidorian Reaction was led by..

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The middle class

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Attributing to the financial crisis of the 1780s was the fact that France had no…

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Central bank, paper currency, and means of creating credit

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What group did not experience gains under Napoleon’s domestic reforms?

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Women

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The difference between the legislative assembly that convened in October 1791 and the disbanded National Assembly was that its members were…

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Younger
(Prosperous, well educated, middle class men, but were younger and less cautious than their predecessors
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In April 1972, France…

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Declared war on Francis II, the Hapsburg monarch

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The bourgeoisie were..

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Upper middle class

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Planned economy

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A planned created by Robespierre that involved the government in the economy
-the govt would set maximum allowable prices for key products instead of letting supply and demand determine prices

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Second Revolution

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A phase when the fall of French monarchy marked a rapid radicalization of the Revolution

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