A Brief View of The French Revolution

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A Brief View ofThe French Revolution

• Honors English 10
• Mr. Kramer

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The 18th century's Enlightment brought thinkers
such as Voltaire and Rousseau to struggle against
the principles of the old regime and absolutism.
In 1789, the state's financial crisis brought
social turmoil, triggering the Revolution
Voltaire
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The government of the Old Regime was the French
political and social system before 1789. Society
in the Old Regime was divided into three classes
called Estates

• The First Estate was made up of all of the clergy
  members.
• The Second Estate was made up of nobility.
• The Third Estate, which was the largest, was made
  up of peasants, city workers, and the middle
  class.

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• In 1779, the National Assembly announced the end
  of feudalism and serfdom, and then, in 1789,
  issued the Declaration of Rights of Man.

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• On May 5, 1789, Louis called a meeting of the
  Estates-General in Versailles. Once in session,
  the Estates-General assumed the powers of the
  government .
• On June 20th of the same year the Third Estate
  declared themselves the National Assembly and
  made the Tennis Court Oath, a pledge to
  themselves not to separate until they gave France
  a constitution.

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• July 14, 1789, a mob stormed the Bastille in
  Paris, and a short time later imprisoned the king
  and royal family in the palace of the Tuileries

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• A few weeks later, the revolutionaries enacted
  the Declaration of the Rights of Man which
  embodied the principles of Liberté, Egalité, and
  Fraternité (Freedom, Equality, Fraternity) and
  had far reaching consequences for all the other
  European monarchies.

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• In 1791, the royal family attempted to escape to
  Austria but were captured and brought back to
  Paris. Louis then accepted the new French
  Constitution but continued secretly to work
  against the revolution.

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• In 1792 the National Convention declared France a
  republic and had the king tried as a traitor and
  condemned to death. Louis XVI was sentenced to
  the guillotine on January 21, 1793, in Paris.

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