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