French Revoultion Flashcards
Enlightenment beliefs
Equal rights, less war, remove oppressive governments or governments all together
Main beliefs/Contributions of French Revolution Figures
Abolish oppressive ideals from Louis 16, equal taxes and such. #fuckyoulouis16th
Enlightenment ideas and their effects on French Rev
There ideas were very popular and since there about like peace and there not in peace.. it sparked revolution
The old regime: Problems with 3 estates
3rd estate was majority, but only taxed. Clergy and nobility weren’t taxed and the 200,000 lived da life while 98m were in suffering.
Old regime: attempts at reform
Louis 16 hired Jacques necker to help economy aka taxing all estates. Louis 16th brought up estates-general to help as well but had no success.
Cahiers
Fair taxes, freedom of press
Regular meetings of EG
Demonstrated class resentment
Condemned tax collectors, courts of nobles
Clergy”devowed” ½ wealth of france
Estates general
Body of representatives for each states
Tennis court Oath
Delegates from 3rd estate elected WHO?
Reform financial crisis
Deadlocked an issue of voting
1 vote per group
3rd estate wants to count votes by head
Call themselves the national assembly
Storming the bastille
Storming it marked beginning of revolution
Bastille
Prison/huge building that represented french monarchy power
The great fear #start of moderate phase
Pesant revolts on nobility #riots
Faction
Group or click in a larger group
The Paris Comunne
Replaced royalist gov of the city of paris, increased violent action #continuetherevolution
National Assemlby
Group of 3rd estate and some nobles who moved to get rid of estate differing priv
Decoration of rights of Man
Assembly issued statement giving human rights
Goals of political parties aka factions
Men were happy with revolution, women were not bc they weren’t given rights, the clergy were not happy with anything etc etc
Pressure on the king
Louis was pressured to make reforms even though he didint want to and didnt
Radical phase started with what? What did louis 16th do?
Radicals establishing national convention and seizing nation control. Louis tried to escape, with put on trial and then killed.
What was the committee on public safety?
created by the National Convention in 1793 with the intent to defend the nation against foreign and domestic enemies, as well as to oversee the new functions of the executive government.
Who’s Robespierre?
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution.
The Reign of Terror
(1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary ‘suspects’ between September 1793 and July 1794.
The directory phase started with what?
The french constitution
