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FRENCH REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram
FRENCH REVOLUTION
STAGES
Legislative assembly
Legal changes
Girondins (ideas of the bourgeoisie) and Jacobins (more radical)
Convention
Louis XVI was accused of treason and then executed.
Leadership of Robespierre
Dictatorship known as The Terror
Constituent Assembly
Write a Constitution
Protesters began to riot in the streets of Paris
Attack to the Bastille
Legal reforms
Abolished feudal rights
Approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Louis XVI tried to escape
1791 adopted a Constitution
Directory
1795 France's moderate middle class gained control of the country.
They established a more conservative government
Formed by five members
1799 France still at war and radical revolutionaries wanted to regain the control
Napoleon Bonaparte organised a military coup
Consulate
Napoleon First Consul for life (1802) and Emperor of France (1804)
Domestic policy (civil code
International policy
National Assembly
Proposal of new voting system
Third state declared true representatives of the nation
Demanded a Constitution
CAUSES
Influence of elightenment ideas
Political crisis
Estates General
Economic crisis
Bankrupt of the state
Social crisis
Estates of the realm discontented with the crown
CONSEQUENCES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE
Disintegration of the Ancien Regime.
Politics
End of absolute monarchy
Constitutional monarchies and republics.
New constitutions
Limited male suffrage and civil rights
New political groups
Economy
All citizens had to pay taxes
New laws guaranteed private property rights
Free trade was established
Social
End of Estates system