FRENCH REVOLUTION 2.part
LEGISTATIVE ASSEMBLY (1791-1792)
NATIONAL CONVENTION (1792-1795)
THE DIRECTORY (1795-1799)
THE CONSULATE (1799-1804)
Constitution was approved
Constituent Assembly was dissolved
Elections were held
Results determined formation of Legistative Assembly
Had to prepare the laws
New political tendencies
The Plain
The Girondins
The Jacobins
Deputies in majority
Didn't belong to any party
2nd highest number of representatives
Parlamentary monarchies ->
Moderates, federalists & supporters
Radical liberals, centralists & supporters of Republic
In the minority
1792 -> Austria and Prussia
Attacked France
Threatenes Paris
Sans-culottes rose up
Suspicious of loyalty of a king
Who conspired with the invaders
L.A. suspended executive power of king
Elections by universal manhood suffrage
Assembly assumed legistiative & executive power
New constitution was to be created
Not because of wars
Priority was fighting invaders
Defeated at battle of Valmy
Jacobins
Obtained more representatives than Girondins
But didn't won the mayority
Convention removed & imprisoned Louis XVI
Republic was proclaimed
Jacobins took control of Convention
Voted for radical measures
King tried for treason & executed
Committees organised for tasks
Slavery was abolished
Measures to support lower classes
Convention drew up a Constitution
Never approved
It predicted
Greater political democratisation
Distributing wealth
By universal manhood suffrage
Giving right to food, education & work
"The Terror period
Robespierre (leader of Jacobins)
Ordered
Execution of anti-revoutionaries
Anyone suspeced of being anti-revolucionary
"White Terror period
Inestability led deputies to
Carry out a coup d'état in 1794
Seized power
Sentenced Robespierre to death
Against the Jacobins
Convention began drafting a new Constitution
Libertality, equality, fraternity
Motto on documents & monuments
New constitution was approved in 1795
Less open in rights & freedoms than 1791
Established executive power called "Directory"
New goverment faced
Constant foreign warfare
Internal conspirances
Rebellions by monarchists & revolutionaries
New coup d'état
Because of instability &lack of victory
Napoleon Bonaparte (French General)
Led in 1799 the coup d'état
Seized power
Drew up another constitution
Established
Congress & a Senate with very few power
Because goverment (Consulate)
Brought executive & legistative powers
Napoleon rule in an authoritarian way
As first consul of the Republic
