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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - News that troops were being sent to Versailles
      - attacked the Bastille
    - - spread from Paris to other cities and also to the countryside
      - peasants attacked the homes of the nobility
      - burned their archives and refused to pay feudal duties.
      - Grande Peur (Great Fear)
    - - passed a range of legal reforms
      - abolished feudal privileges and the tithes paid by the peasantry to the clergy.
      - established equality in the payment of taxes.
    - - In 1790
      - The clergy would now be paid by the state and would be elected by the people.
    - - a constitutional monarchy
      - limited male suffrage
      - the separation of powers
- - - - Girondins
        
        wealthy bourgeoisie.
        
        moderate views and supported the constitutional monarchy and limited suffrage.
      - Jacobins
        
        petite bourgeoisie.
        
        radical views.
        
        abolish the monarchy, establish a republic and introduce universal manhood suffrage
    - - France was under constant threat of invasion by Austria and Prussia.
      - declared war in 1792.
      - Louis XVI's reluctance to accept the revolutionary changes
      - France was defeats
      - 1792 the people of Paris revolted and attacked the Tuileries Palace.
      - Louis XVI was imprisoned
      - France became a republic.
  - - - execute Louis XVI
      - Jacobins took control of the government
      - dictatorship known as the Terror.
      - dictatorship known as the Terror.
  - - - organised a military coup.
      - established a new form of government called the Consulate
      - Napoleon as First Consul
      - By 1804, Napoleon had absolute power and the French Revolution had ended.
- - - - French intellectuals Enlightenment ideas and wanted to put them into practice.
      - they demanded that all French subjects be free and equal before the law.
    - - French monarchy was heavily in debt.
      - because of the court's excessive spending on parties, palaces and other luxuries, and participation in wars
    - - the economic crisis affected each of the three estates differently.
      - privileged estateswere able to maintain their incom
      - Third Estate suffered from rising taxes
    - - Louis XVI's ministers suggested that the privileged estates should pay tax
      - nobility and clergy refused and demanded that the king call the Estates General