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The French Revolution
Basic info
Violent political and social change
Abolition of the absolute monarchy
End of the estates system
Began in 1789
First European bourgeois revolution
The causes of the French Revolution
The influence of the Enlightenment
French intellectuals and the bourgeoisie
Supported Enlightenment ideas
Wanted to put them into practice
All French subjects be free and equal
The economic crisis
Monarch in debt
Court's excessive spending
Parties, palaces, and other luxuries
France's participation in military conflicts
Bread prices increased
This led to hunger for poor people
The social crisis
Privileged estates
Maintain their income
The Third Estate
Rising taxes
Only estate that paid tax
The political crisis
Privileged estates should pay tax
Nobility and clergy refused
demanded call the Estates General
Louis XVI
Absolute monarch in France
Opposed meetings of the Estates General
Not limit his power
He was forced to call the Estates General in 1789
The Estates General
The spread of Enlightenment ideas
Pamphlets written by intellectuals
Start of the French Revolution
The cahiers de doléances
Representatives of each estate collected the demands
Clergy and nobility
Opposed to losing their privileges
Third Estate
Demanded equality
End to the clergy and nobility's privileges
Unequal representation
The events of the French Revolution
The National Assembly
New voting system
Vote individually
As the true representative of the nation
National Assembly
King locked the National Assembly
They wen to a tennis court
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The Constituent Assembly
King agreed to demands
Constituent Assembly was formed
Write a constitution
Triumph for the bourgeoisie
Riot in Paris (Bastille)
Revolt spread
From Paris to other cities
Peasants attacked the homes of the nobility
Revolt in the countryside
Abolished feudal privileges
Tithes paid by the peasantry to the clergy
The Legislative Assembly
Girondins
Wealthy bourgeoisie
Moderate views
Supported the constitutional monarchy
Jacobins
Petite bourgeoisie
Abolish the monarchy
Establish a republic
