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The French Revolution
The French Revolution
Violent political and social change period
Abolition of absolute monarchy
End of estates system
First European revolution (1789)
Causes of French revolution
Influence of the Enlightenment
Intellectuals supported ideas
Wanted to put into practice
Economic crisis
French monarchy was debt
Court's excessive spending
Parties, palaces...
Poor harvest
Bread was more expensive
Social crisis
Estates system
Political crisis
Privilegded clases should pay tax
King call the Estates General to approve new taxes
Events
Estates General at 1789 was the beginnig
National Assembly
Third estate want a new voting system (equal)
King refused
Third estate declared the true representative of the nation
King locked it so they made a tennis court
Constituent Assembly
Assemby was created to create a Constitution
Triumph for the bourgeoisie (monarchy wasn`t longer absolute)
Riot in Paris (14 July 1789)
People attacked the Bastille
Politic prisioners were kept
The revolt of Paris spread to other cities
Countryside revolt (Great Fear)
Range of legal reforms
Equality in the payment of taxes
1790
Constitution of the clergy
Clergy would now be paid by the state
Elected by the people
Legislative assemby
1791 elections
Two political groups
Girodins
Wealthy bourgeoisie
Moderate view
Jacobins
Petite bourgeoisie
Radical view
August 1792
Attack to the Tuileries palace
Louis XVI imprisioned
France became a republic
Constitution
1791
Constitutional Monarchy
Monarchy power was limited
Limited male suffrage
Only rich men could vote
Separation of powers
Monarch had executive power
Assembly had legislative power
The courts had judicial power.
The Directory and the Consulate
1794 and in 1795 they adopted a new constitution.
limited male suffrage
New form of government
The directory
1799 General Napoleon Bonaparte organised a military coup
Consulate
New form of goverment
Three consuls
1804 French revolution ended with Napoleon absolute power
Convention
Most radical phase
Elected by universal manhood suffrage
1793
execute Louis XVI
Guillotine
Estates general
Clergy and nobility had more vote so they wim allways
Unequal representation
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