Unit 5 (ch. 18-19) Flashcards
Facts about the Compte Rendu
Jacques Necker:
- Report to king (everyone saw)
- ignore debt of American Revolution
- stop paying salary to aristocracy (pressured king to dismiss him)
- no need for French gov. Rise ad levy taxes
Causes of the crisis leading up to the French Revolution
- Louis XV:
- debt from 7 years war
- wasn’t able to gain nobility support
- chief advisor Renè Maupeou tried to dismiss the parlement - Louis XVI:
- dismissed Renè, restored parlement
- bankrupt from American Revolution (disruption of crops)
- married Marie Antoinette “Australian whore” “Madame Deffiet” Australian (enemy of France) couldn’t provide male heir
Makeup of the estates general and reasons for its conveying in 1789
Estates General: -Clergy -nobility -everyone else Reasons: Disagreements of funding for France
Financial reforms of Charles Calonne
- taille
- gov. encourage free internal trade
- lower salt tax
- universal land tax
1st and 2nd attempts to limit rights of 3rd estate
- vote by representatives (300 votes)
- vote by clergy (1 vote)
Grievances included as part of the Cashiers de Doleances
Abolished:
- unfair taxing
- hunting rights
- church corruption
- Absolutism (wanted limited gov.)
- government waste
- property
Creation of the National Assembly
- didn’t felt they were being heard
- 3rd estate and reform minded 1st and 2nd
- goal to limit kings power
- replace after estates general
Tennis Court Oath
- June 20, 1789
- keep meeting until they form the New Constitution
- June 27, Louis XVI official recognize them as National Assembly; changed to National Constituent Assembly
Reasons for the riots of 1788 and 1789
- king dismissed Jacque Necker
- increased bread price
- Louis started mobilizing royal troops to Paris
Facts and significance of Storming of the Bastille
- July 14, 1789
- marched to Bastille for weapons
- 98 died
- start of the Revolution
- Louis writes “nothing” from hunting
- national guard lead by Marquis de Lafayette
The Great Fear
- rumor the king was confiscating towns people’s home
- took matter into own hands and attacked the nobilities home
- highlighted the tipping point of lower class
Night of August 4th
- Feudalism is abolished
- getting rid of the social class
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
- Aug. 27,1789
- women were left out
Jean Paul Marat
- the friend of the people news paper
- writes about propaganda and anti church gov.
- publish the royal family mocking the revolutionary flag, led to October day
- killed by Charlotte Corday: I killed one man to save 100,000
October days
- masculine women marched to Versailles to demand ratification of Declaration of Rights… and lower bread price
- Jean Paul Marat tells everyone Marie said “let them eat cake”
- royal family brought to Paris, Versailles no longer home of the monarchy
National Constituent Assembly and its preferred form of gov.
- Limited monarchy
- replaced after National Assembly
Characteristics and facts about the constitution of 1791
- limited monarchy
- National Constituent replaced to Legislative Assembly
- active citizens: male, can vote, own certain property, 50,000 out of 25 mill.
- passive: didn’t have right to vote
Declaration of the rights of women
Olympe de Gouges:
- wanted gender equality
- equality in marriage, education, own property, recognized as citizens
- brought to Marie
Economic reform
- Grain trade: deregulation trade
- metric system: encourage growth of domestic trade
- chapelier law: forbide workers and trade union, discourage trade growth and waged
- assignat: back up by revenue made by church land or property; led to inflation
Civil constitution of the clergy
- religious reform (aimed at corrupt church)
- French church under state control
- bishops from 135-83 departments
- clergy was elected by the people
- salary paid by gov.
- jurying clergy took oath to support⬆️
- refractory clergy did not
Roman Catholic Church’s view of the Revolution
- pope Pius VI
- against the revolution
Émigrés
- Groups who fled the country (16,000 to England, Austria, Netherlands)
- started the French Plague: Revolution was a disease that threatened European society and Europe should prevent it from spreading
Characteristics and facts about the Jacobins
- political groups within a club competing for power
- Girondists: emerged as leader, order émigrés to return to France, order refractory clergy to take oath
- Montagnards “mountains” republican, extremist, hated Louis XVI
Sans Culottes and goals and methods
“Paris commune”
- without leggings (represent not aristocrats)
- working class people
- wanted end of food storage, wanted social equality, small property owner to share equality, the ppl. to vote for gov.
- Storming of Tileries: Aug. 10, 1792; rumors Marie was sending secret message to Austria
- wanted to eliminate any counter revolutionaries
September massacre
- excused prisoners of counter revolutionaries executed
- 1,200 executed
- discredit French Revolution
Challenges facing the French Revolutionaries
- monarchy: could monarchy be trusted?
- counter revolutionaries: refractory clergy, royalist peasants, émigrés
- religious division
- economic crisis: assignat backfired
- war: war on Austria and eventually all of Europe
- political division: jacobins, Montagnards, Girondist
Declaration of Pillnitz
- Austria and Prussia’s Leopold II and Frederick William III
- if royal family is harmed Austria and Prussia will ally military
- revolution changed from original path
National convention and its actions
- declared France as a republic
- put Louis on trial as citizen Capet; found guilty and executed
- declared war on practically all of Europe
Countries at war with France
1st coalition:
- Austria
- Prussia
- holland
- Sardinia
- Spain
- Great Britain
Edmund Burkes view on the revolution
Reflections on the revolution in France:
- France rund by amateur that ignored historical reality
- revolution will end in military despotism