Section 3 Radical Days

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Section 3 Radical Days Setting the Scene
Someone who had left Paris in 1791 and returned
in 1793 could have gotten lost. Almost 4,000
streets had new names. Louis XV Square was
renamed the Square of the Revolution.
King-of-Sicily Street, named for the brother of
Louis XVI, had become the Rights of Man Street.
Renaming streets was one way that Jacobins tried
to wipe out all traces of the old order. In 1793,
the revolution entered a radical phase. For a
year, France experienced one of the bloodiest
regimes in its long history as determined leaders
sought to extend and preserve the revolution
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I. The Monarchy Abolished
August 1792 - the royal family fled when
Parisians stormed the Tuileries and slaughtered
the king's guards
The Tuileries Palace in Paris
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I. The Monarchy Abolished
Citizens attacked prisons and killed nobles,
priests, and ordinary criminals during the
September Massacres
Massacre of Prisoners at the Abbey of St.
Germaine
Transporting the Bodies after the 1792 September
Massacres
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I. The Monarchy Abolished
Radicals took control of the Assembly, created
the National Convention, abolished the monarchy,
and created a Republic
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I. The Monarchy Abolished
A new constitution was created and suffrage was
extended to all male citizens
Supreme being, Sovereign people, Republic of
France
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I. The Monarchy Abolished
January 1793 - Louis XVI was convicted of treason
and beheaded - Marie Antoinette was executed in
October
Execution of Louis XVI
Execution of Marie Antoinette
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II. The Convention Defends the Republic
1793 - France was losing the war, peasants
rebelled, and wide-spread food shortages and
inflation
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II. The Convention Defends the Republic
The Convention created the Committee of Public
Safety led by Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre, 1758-1794
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II. The Convention Defends the Republic
Robespierre was responsible for the Reign of
Terror, which claimed 40,000 victims from 1793 to
1794
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II. The Convention Defends the Republic
The 12-member Committee had unlimited power It
issued a levee en masse to prepare France for
all-out war
The armies of the Revolution at the Battle of
Varoux, 1792.
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II. The Convention Defends the Republic
1794 The Convention had Robespierre and radicals
of the Committee of Public Safety arrested and
executed
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III. Reaction and the Directory
1795 The 3rd stage of the revolution a new
constitution with a five-man Directory and a
two-house legislature
Madame Tussauds - French Revolution Death Masks
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III. Reaction and the Directory
The Directory held power from 1795 to 1799 but
failed to solve Frances problems
The third issue of assignats. The King has
disappeared, and it is issued by the Republique
Francaise
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III. Reaction and the Directory
Women gained some rights early in the Revolution,
but lost others when Napoleon took power
Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere, aka Madame
Roland (1754 1793) supporter of the French
Revolution, died by the guillotine during the
Reign of Terror
Olympe de Gouges (1745 1793) lost her life to
the guillotine due to her revolutionary ideas.
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III. Reaction and the Directory
By 1799, the Revolution had changed many aspects
of France and inspired a rise in French
nationalism