french revolution Flashcards

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marie antoinette

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severely disliked
french rev
austrian princess
made fun of peasants
infidelity
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louis xvi 1780

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incompetent
weak
kind
stupid
french rev
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reasons for french rev

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deBT !!!! wars with gb, seven years war, american rev

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assembly of notables 1787

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aristocrats clergy dont pay taxes
new land tax for all
refused of course
louis xvi
sparked revolution
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estates general

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three estates
clergy 1
aristocrats 2
commoners 3
each one vote
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abbe sieyes

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third estate

french rev

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list of grievences

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french rev
equal tax
regular meetings EG
at first loyal to monarch

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National Assembly

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french rev
third estate
angered at kept waiting at EG
delayed submitting creds
reps of all 3 estates
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tennis court oath

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national assembly
french rev
meeting hall closed
wont split until rights

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Bastille

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french rev
prison paris
held monarch haterz
arMS!!!

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commune of Paris

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french rev

municipal gov

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lafayette 1800

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french
general in american rev
led national guard

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Great fear

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french rev
peasants
noble groups steal from peasants
poor harvest
high taxes
attack estates
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Declaration of the rights of man and citizen

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French rev
lafayette
'all' citizens equal before law
freedom of religion, press, gov, and property
no wOMEN CAUSE GROSS
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storming of versailles

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women
no bread :c
french rev
captured king louis xvi and brought back to paris

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Olympe de Gouges

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rights of women
french rev
should have same rights as man
executed

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Varennes

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king tried to escape
used his own id
cause he stupid yo
caught
constituional monarchy collapse
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girondins

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war ! :D
exile king
laissez-faire ♥
local gov
vote = property
no le gusta sans-culottes put some pants on jezzuth heathens
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Jacobins

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king shall be executed \.u./
gov involved → prevent inflation
poweful central gov
san-culottes
favored
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Declaration of pillnitz

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dont harm the king or our austrian princess yo
marie antoinette
french rev

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september massacre

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sans-culottes
1200 counter-revolutionaries murdered
french rev

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committee of public safety

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robespierre
dictators
french rev

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reign of terror

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robepierre french rev
committee of public safety
mass execution → mostly peasants
no fair trials
no clubs
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Marat

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french rev
sans-culotte
radical journalist
murdered by charlotte corday → giradon

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cult of the supreme being

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robespierre cray cray
cath church is icky
new calendar 10 days
months named after seasons
1792 first year of rep. → year one
remove religious symbols
obviously robespierre is a deity
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thermidorian reaction 1794

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robespierre guillatine

french rev

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thermidorians

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opposers of robepierre

french rev

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the directory 1795

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five men
two house legislature
basically oligarchy

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napoleon

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corsica
jacobin
military !
coup d'etat → overpowered directory
first consul
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concordat [french rev]

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napoleon appeases church
cath → ‘great majority’ religion of france
not official religion of france
dont really mean anythan

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civil code if 1804

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napoleon
napoleonic code
current frame for french law
single legal system → no more local laws
people equal before law
right of property
hated women
   -could not buy/sell property
   -legally dependent of males
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battle of trafalgar 1805

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french defeated by brits
no no frenchies play nice
navy

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third/fourth coalition

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quad alliance

napoleon
austria
russia
gb
prussia
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continental system

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napoleon

weaken gb

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barren von stein 1790

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napoleon 
prussia
end junkers → enlist bourgeois
professional ministry of war
large army reserve → parttime soldiers
not as hard → peasants loyal
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Napoleons grand army

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600,000 men
invade russia
september {cray cray}
slash and burn moscow

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louis xviii

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after napoleon
old and gross
restoration of bourbon monarchy

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elba

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island napoleon was exiled to

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congress of vienna 1814

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gb austria prussia russia
after napoleon
poland → russia
generous to france
netherlands = reunite north and south [austrian]
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metternich 1800

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captain conservative

austrian chancellor

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hundred days 1815

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napoleon
return to france
louis xviii fled
emperor
exiled to st helena
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battle of waterloo 1815

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napoleon
defeated x2
100 days
sent to st helena