French Revolution Flashcards
Second estate
Nobles Of the sword, limited middle class aristocracy with Segur Law 1781
First Estate
Clergy, 1% pop’l
Collected Tithe: church tax
Third estate
95% of Fr
Petty bourgeoisie
Sans-culottes
Turgot
Finance minister of Louis XVI
Promoted physiocracy
Wants him to tax wealthy, got fired
Cahiers de doleances
Demands for tax equality
Abolish feudalism
List for Meeting of Estates general
National Assembly 1789
Actually the Third estate
Tennis court Oath 1789
National Assembly won’t disband until eh have new constitution
March to Bastille 1789
Parisians march
Defenders of armory are captured/killed
Great Fear 1789
Peasants destroy noble properties
National Assembly disbands feudalism
Declaration of rights of Man 1789
Legal equality
Religious freedom
October days
Women’s march to Versailles to lower bread cost
Civil constitution of the Clergy 1789-90
Requires all priests to swear oath to Revolution
Confiscates Cath church lands
Constitution of 1791
Single legislative body with constitutional monarchy that can only delay legislation
Jacobins Club
Growing in political power
Radical revolutionaries
Declaration of Pillnitz 1791
Austrian emperor and Prussian King declare war in Fr to maintain order
Girondins Party
Moderate republicans
Rival of Jacobins
Brunswick Manifesto 1792
Aus and Prus threaten revolutionaries with violence
Georges Danton
Best spokesperson for Paris Commune
National Convention 1792
Radical
Elected to govern France
Constitution of 1791 abolished
French Republic (I) 1792
National convention abolishes Monarchy
Constitution of 1793
By Robespierre
Univ male suffrage
Committee of Public safety
Fr enters reign of terror
Aided Committee of General Security (revolutionary police)
Law of General Maximum
Abandon FM policies
Max price for key commodities
Abolition of slavery
Resulting from St. Dominique revolt in Haiti
De christianization
Cult of Supreme being: creating deistic civic religion
Constitution of 1795 (Year III)
Directory rules Fr for 4 years
Treaty of Campo Formio 1797
New Italian Republics
Coup d’état of Brumaire
Napoleon rids Directory, makes Consulate
Napoleonic Code
Ideals of merit and equality
Everyone is equal before the law
Bank of France
Mde by Napoleon
Eliminate budget deficit
Modernized tax system
Concordat of 1801
W/ Pope Pius VII
Cath was majority relig of Fr
Still had relig tolerance
Peace of Amiens 1802
Temporarily ended war between GB and Fr
Treaty of Tilsit 1807
Ended Napoleon’s War of Third Coalition against Aus, Prus, Rus
Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Attack against GB failed
Defeated by Horatio Nelson
Continental System
Napoleon’s attempt to embargo GB goods, failed
Battle of Waterloo 1815
Napoleon’s final defeat
Napoleonic Foreign Policy
- Set ideas of Enlightenment and Fr Rev to conquered lands
2. Gain territ for Fr
Abolition of Feudalism
Win over peasants in foreign countries
New Diplomatic Systems
Created publics in Italy, Low Countries, Switz
Defeated Austria 1806
Confederation of The Rhine
Abolished HRE
Duchy of Warsaw
Napoleon’s smaller version of Poland
