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The French Revolution

The French Revolution. First Phase: 1789-1793. Objective. To understand the causes of the French Revolution To understand the events leading to the French Revolution To understand the consequences of the French Revolution. French Literacy Rates. French Society in the 1700s.

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The French Revolution

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  1. The French Revolution First Phase: 1789-1793

  2. Objective • To understand the causes of the French Revolution • To understand the events leading to the French Revolution • To understand the consequences of the French Revolution

  3. French Literacy Rates

  4. French Society in the 1700s • Divided into Three estates • First Estate: The Church • Second Estate: The Nobility • Third Estate: Everybody Else

  5. The Three Estates

  6. French Society in the 1700s • Peasants subject to obligations (banalites) • Corvee • TailleGabelle • Other obligations

  7. French Absolutism in Crisis • Louis XIV dies in 1715; his great-grandson Louis XV becomes king

  8. Louis XIV

  9. Louis XV

  10. Madame Du Barry

  11. French Absolutism in Crisis • Louis XVI • Grandson of Louis XV • Marie Antoinette

  12. Louis XVI

  13. Marie Antoinette

  14. French Absolutism in Crisis • Government needs money • Debts from wars • Solutions?

  15. French Absolutism in Crisis • Louis XVI pressured to convene the Estates-General • Represented each estate • Voting System • Problems?

  16. The Estates General

  17. French Absolutism in Crisis • Estates-General convenes • Cahiers de doleances

  18. The French Revolution • On June 17, 1789, the Third Estate calls itself the National Assembly • Tennis Court Oath

  19. Tennis Court Oath

  20. The French Revolution • The Fall of the Bastille • Parisians march to the Bastille on July 14, 1789

  21. The Storming of the Bastille

  22. The French Revolution • The Great Fear (August 1789) • Peasants revolt in the countryside

  23. The French Revolution • National Constituent Assembly issues the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 27, 1789 • Women march on Versailles

  24. Liberty Bears the Rights of Man

  25. Women’s March to Versailles

  26. The French Revolution • Constitutional monarchy declared • Constitution of 1791

  27. Reorganization of France

  28. The French Revolution • Civil Constitution of the Clergy • Flight to Varennes

  29. Flight to Varennes

  30. The French Revolution • Declaration of Pillnitz • Austria and Prussia will intervene to protect French monarchy

  31. Europe in 1789

  32. The French Revolution • Factions appear • Royal family under arrest on August 10, 1792 • Prussia attacks France on September 21, 1792

  33. The French Revolution • Louis XVI on trial • THE MONARCHY IS ABOLISHED

  34. Execution of Louis XVI

  35. Marie Antoinette on her way to Execution

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