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FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1799) - Coggle Diagram
FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1799)
CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The influence of the Enlightement
French intellectuals and the bourgeoise
Political crisis
Estates General
Three states of realm
To advise the king in important situations
Clery
300 representatives
1 vote
Nobility
300 representatives
1 vote
Economic crisis
Bankrupt
Participation in military conflicts
Large amounts of money spent by the royal family
The ministers suggested to increase the taxes even for the privilaged upper classes
Social crisis
Discontented with the crown
Nobility and clery
Protect their traditional
economic privileges.
Refused to pay the taxes
Middle class
Bourgeoise
Abolish the
absolute monarchy
They didn't participate in the goverment
Petit bourgeoise
Economic difficulties
Taxes
Wars
Increased
competition from British products
Peasantry
Economic difficulties
Wars
Poor harvests
Taxes
Luxurius lifestyle of the royal family and the court
Privileges of the clery and the nobility
Louis XVI
decided to call together the Estates General (1789)
Begining of the Frech revolution
STAGES OF THE FRECH REVOLUTION
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
New voting system
The king refused
The members of the Thisrd state declared himselfs as the true representatives of the nation
Demand a constitution
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
The king agreed
Write a constitution
Protests did riots in Paris
14th July 1789
Attacked the Bastille
Legal reforms
Abolished feudal rights
Approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The king tried to escape but the revolucionaries discovered him
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Jacobins
Defended the revolution
Radical
Abolish monarchy
Favoured workers
Girondins
Represented the bourgeoise
More moderate
Liberal economic policies
CONVENTION
Louis XVI accused of treason and executed
Robespierre
Didactorship
Terror
DIRECTORY
Conservative government
Five members
NAPOLEONEONIC EMPIRE
Coup d'etát (1799)
Consulte
Three members (Napoleon de first one)
First Consule of life (1802)
Emperor of France (1804)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Domestic policy
CIVIL CODE
International policy
Imposed enlightement policies
Constitutions
CONSEQUENCES
Crisis
Disintigrating of the Ancien Regime
Politics
End of the Ancien Regime
New forms of goverment
Constitutional monarchy
Republic
Limited male suffrage
Civil rights
Economic
End of privilages
Taxes and state expends
Private property
Free trade
Social changes
End of the states system