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Events of French Revolution, GROUP MEMBER Nicole Belliard (21-0395) …
Events of French Revolution
Denunciation
Louis XVI
During the Flight to Varennes, Louis XVI left behind a written denunciation of the Revolution to show, especially to the Assembly, that the constitutional monarchy was a fraud.
Rivalry
Church
Non-juring priests became new revolutionary enemies, while a dissident refractory church now openly competed for popular loyalties with the ‘constitutional’ clergy appointed to replace them.
Violence
All-around
Violence was literally everywhere: in Paris, irated crowds humiliated and would beat on nuns, while priests were dragged from pulpits, and a few were even shot at.
Despotism
Siege of Bastille
In July 1789, the crown tried to crush the Assembly by sacking the popular minister Necker. As a response, the Parisian population formed a militia, seized state armouries and besieged Bastille to secure its stocks of gunpowder.
Militia
Townspeople
The townspeople began forming militias in order to defend themselves from peasantries whose motivations were unclear and/or someone they would not trust.
Dissent
Civil Constitution
In January 1791, almost half of all priests refused to take a loyalty oath, as an attempt to end dissent over the Civil Constitution.
Night 4th of August
Renounce
In a desperate attempt to regain the political initiative, the leading reformers in the Assembly proposed that privileges like noble tax exemptions should be ended. Because of it, the night of the 4th of August was filled with proposals from nobles willing to sacrifice said privileges.
Champ de Mars Massacre
Conflagration
While tension was elevated in the city and the elite believed ‘disorganisers’ and ‘anarchists’ were a rowdy front for counter-revolutionary brigandage, martial law was declared and the National Guard militia opened fire on the crowd in the ‘Champ de Mars Massacre’. Some radical leaders were arrested and others went into hiding.
Opposition
The Jacobin Club
The longing for the maintenance of their status led many people into a counter-revolution, which then resulted in the creation of the most influential political group, soon to become a national movement: The Jacobin Clubs. This club fought against anyone who opposed the revolution.
Flight to Varennes
Evasion
The night of June 20th, the king and the queen tried to avoid Easter communion with a constitutional priest by leaving the city, but to their surprise a huge crowd was their stopping them from fleeing.
GROUP MEMBER
Nicole Belliard (21-0395)
Emely Calderon (21-0388)