The French Revolution

Causes

Political Crisis

Economic crisis

Enlightenment influence

Social Crisis

Bourgeoisie

French intellectuals

Supported Enlightenment ideas

The Estates General

300 Representatives from nobility

300 Representatives from Clergy

600 Representatives from Third State

1 vote

1 vote

1 vote

Wasn't fair

France was bankrupt

Because of

Seven Years War

Luxurious Lifestyle of Nobility

American War of Independence

Louis XVI proposed to

Increase taxes to

Privileged classes

Each State was discontented

With the King

Nobility and Clergy

Wealthy Bourgeoisie

Peasants

Petite Bourgeoisie

Didn't want to pay taxes

Abolish Monarchy for

Participe in Government

Economic crisis

Because of high taxes

What was that?

When

What did it cause

Where

What

Violent

Political change

Social change

In France

Between 1789 and 1799

End of Estates System

Abolition of Absolute Monarchy

End of Ancient Régime

Stages of French Revolution

Legislative Assembly (Third Stage)

Convention (Fourth Stage)

Constituent Assembly (Second Stage)

Directory (Fifth Stage)

National Assembly (First Stage)

In Estates General

The Third State wanted

Secret

Individual

Vote

The formed a new Assembly

National Assembly

Wanted a Constitution

Declare themselves

True representatives of the Nation

1791

Constitution

14 July 1789

Storming of the Bastille

Legal Reforms

Approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Abolish feudal rights

Louis XVI tried to scape

to Austria

Revolutionaries caught him

Popular Sovereignty

Limited Male Suffrage

Separation of Powers

Created to

Implement Legal Rights

Two political groups

Girondins

Jacobins

Moderated ideas

Mantain limited suffrage

Defended middle classes

Radical ideas

Abolish Monarchy

Control price rises

Help workers

Support from

Sans-Culottes

Louis XVI opposed Legislative Assembly

Asked Austria's help

He was emprisoned

Abolish Monarchy

France was declared Republic

Louis XVI

Acussed of treason

Executed

European countries

Declare war to France

Jacobins controlled government

Leadership of RobesPierre

Dictatorship (Terror)

To stop executions

More conservatory

Composed by 5 members

1799

Radical Revolutionaries

Regain control

Napoleon organized a

Coup D'état

Established a Consulate

Consulate

Napoleon (1802)

First Consul For Life

Napoleon (1804)

Emperor

Achievments

Domestic Policy

International Policy

Civil Code

Laws applied to all citizens

New Legal Concepts

Divorce

Marriage

Adoption

State Education

Lands he conquered

Imposed

Enlightened

Revolutionaries

Policies

Abolish Absolute Monarchy

Consequences of the French Revolution
and the Napoleonic Empire

Disintagration of the Ancien Régime

Politics

Economic

Social

Desaparition of

States System

End of Absolute Monarchy

New forms of governement

Limited Male Suffrage

Civil Rights

Political groups were born

All citizens

Pay taxes

New laws for

Private Property

Free trade