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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY - Coggle Diagram
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
Difficult times for the Monarchy
Under the reign of Louis XVI
France was an absolute monarchy
The population had begun to criticise the situation
Demanded changes of regime
Factors that triggered the revlution
Inequality before the law
Noblemen and clerics did not pay direct taxes
The bourgeoisie and the peasantry did pay taxes
Economic crisis
France lost Canada and possessions of India and Africa
The court at Versailles did not reduce its spending on luxuries
The example of the United States
Political unrest
25,000 books of grievances were compiled in France
The liberal ideas of the Enlightenment
Criticism of absolutism and the division of society
Called for
Separation of powers
Equality before the law
Social inequalities
Many Parisians went hungry and had no resources
Phases of the French revolution
The Legislative Assembly
New political tendecies
The Girodins
They were moderate
Supporters of the parliamentary monarchy
The Jacobins
They were radical liberals
Supporters of the republic
The Plain
Did not belong to any party
The National Convention
Had legislative and executive powers
Louis XVI
Removed from power and imprisoned
Found guilty of treason and guillotined
A republic was proclaimed
“The Terror” was established
Robespierre
Responsible for the execution of thousands of suspected
anti-revolutionaries
The deputies carried out a coup d’état
Senteced Robespierre to death
The ‘White Terror’ against the Jacobins
A new Constitution
National Constituient Assembly
The storming of the Bastille
The Constitution of 1791
Established a division of powers
The king’s conspiracies were discovered
He was detained
The Directory
A new more conservative constitution was written
Executive power was given to a Directory
Made up of a five-member committee
Constant threats led to Napoleon carrying out a coup d’état
The Estates general
A consultative parliament made up of the three estates
The Consulate
Napoleon Bonaparte
Took power and wrote a new constitution
established an empire in 1804