French Rev Flashcards
Reason for it
An end to absolutism and autocratic privilege
Estates general
Why didn’t he wanna call them
Assembly of nobility church officials and bourgeoisie
Would question the absolute rule of the king
Why did Louis XIV call assembly
Allied assembly for tax reforms wanted to increase taxes to pay bills for the multiple wars (debt) and extravagant royal life
What did middle class reps demand at the LOUIS xiv assembly
Demand that the estates general become a real parliament that shared power w the king
The bourgeoisie(middle class)
Storming of Bastille
Including a mob attack on the royal prison , spread the rebellion
Women’s march on Versailles
Demand Louis and wife Marie Antoinette pay attention starving French children
The king and queen remained prisoners in Paris until the new parliament named
National Assembly
Called for their executions
Declaration of the rights of man and citizen
Not intends to declare independence but proclaim freedom of thought
Both docs affirmed the “natural rights”
French began writing a constitution for a new political system that would what
Limit the power of the king and gave new authority to the National Assembly
Radical jacobins stressed what
Enlightenment value of equality
Moderates/kings supporters wanted
To control kings restrictions on personal liberties
Which side won the debate
Radicals
Who was Maximilien Robespierre
Formed 1st gov decided no need for a king
Others suspected of disloyalty to new regime went to Guillotine
Reign of terror
Time of mass execution ended w guillotining of Robespierre
Created
Nationalism - sense of belonging and identify one nation from another
