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French Revolution Storybook
Heather Junkerman and Karen Mendoza
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Background Information
Conditions in France in the late 1780s was very
agricultural based. They had a strong monarchy
controlling the economic and political balance of
the country. This left royalty rich, and the
commoners poor.
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Look how gay and dandy I look today.La La La

• Louis the XVI brought together the Estates
  General in 1788 to talk about taxation. This was
  a special meeting because the last time they met
  was in 1614. This was the first meeting in 174
  years. Each estate got the same number of
  numbers, this meant that the first and second
  estates could outvote the third estate which were
  made up of lower class, the peasants. The third
  estate added twice as many people, so when voting
  came, they would be more equal. The parliament
  agreed to let the third group double in
  September, by saying that all voting would be
  done by estate than by head. The third estate was
  angry by their decision, and raged out of the
  meeting, the third estate and clergy and some
  members of first assembly declared themselves The
  National Assembly on June 17, 1789. Rousseau, an
  enlightened thinker said that the people of the
  nation are the nation itself. This was a major
  contribution to democracy because the third
  estate was able to vote by head and not by three
  estates, by giving representation to the people.

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• During the following months from the meeting of
  the estates general, the first and second estate
  fought with the third estates on many issues,
  including the right to vote by head instead of
  by order. On June 20, 1789, they found themselves
  locked out of their regular meeting place, so
  they went to a near by tennis court, they
  promised they would continue to meet until they
  had a new constitution for France. Five hundred
  and seventy-seven members took the oath and
  signed the resolution, five clergies joined them.
  This resulted in a democracy.

TODAY WE DECLARE OUR INDEPENDENCE!!!
WELL CALL IT BASTILLE DAY!!!
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• The Bastille was an old fortress that served as a
  state prison, that a symbol of absolute monarchy.
  It was guard by cannon, eighty soldiers and
  thirty Swiss guards. The soldiers had six
  hundred rifles, twelve muskets, and twenty
  thousands pounds of gun powder. On July 14,
  1749, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille in
  search of weapons and ammunition. They beheaded
  the governor and burned the Bastille to the
  ground. This was an important revolution. They
  did this because a rumor had been spread that the
  troops were going to sent in to break up the
  National Assembly.

ATTACK!!!
Oh _at_
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It was a cold day when the women of the central
market place of Paris made a group of about 6,000
gathered together. This was the day of October 5,
the woman were getting ready to march Versailles,
with two heads pierced through spears, these were
heads of the kings main body guards. The women
were angry and had threatening behavior, the
prices went on bread, which was a big part of the
French diet. The people where mad because many of
them could not afford it, and their families
needed to be fed. They marched around protesting,
making sure that the bread prices were lowered,
they wanted to be able to obtain their bread to
eat. On the way there other woman had joined the
protest along the way. They were armed with
weapons, they muskets and swords of all kinds.
They stormed through gates making their way into
the palace, the king tried escaping. He was
scared and had no idea of what to do, so he gave
them what they had come for, what what they
wanted. The king lowered the price on the bread
so they could feed their families. The march on
Versailles did contribute to the rise of
democracy because the women did not let the king
decide about their price on food (bread), the
woman were independent on their own and made sure
they were heard.
Off with the Kings head!
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The Reign of TerrorThe reign of terror was a
time period that represented the efforts of a few
men to govern the country and wage war in a time
of crisis. Dozens of aristocrats, working poor,
nobles, and clergy were killed each day by the
guillotine. All this was part of Maximilien
Robespierre's Reign of Terror, the bloodiest
part of the French Revolution, his plan to rid
France of the traitors to the Revolution. The
people of France would eventually realize that
he was the biggest threat to their well being and
happiness, and he would follow so many of his
enemies and former friends to the executioner.
Robespierre learned the hard way that change
must be made more gradually, his fault was in
being so completely radical. In 1788, the King,
Louis XVI, had agreed to let the Estates General
meet, because he needed to tax the people to
raise money, largely because of the expense
involved in helping the United States with their
revolution. Riots broke out in the countryside
and the mob in Paris stormed the Bastille. After
a bloody fight, the Bastille was overrun by the
mob. This proved the power of the mob and their
next target was the King's castle, Versailles.
The King and his family were brought to Paris,
where they were kept as prisoners, but held on to
many of their powers. For some time, it looked
like Robespierre and his followers would have
total control of France indefinitely. Robespierre
finally outdid himself. He delivered a vicious
speech in which he claimed that many in the
government, including those on the Committee of
Public Safety, were traitors and that the
Committee had to be purified. This was finally
too much. The next day, a deputy named Tallien
spoke out against Robespierre in the Assembly.
The deputies voted to arrest him, and he was
sentenced to death. He was guillotined on July
28, 1794, killed as much by his own final,
radical, spiteful speech as by any "traitors to
the Revolution."
All tell you, if blood gets on my shirt, I quit.
Darn, I already shaved this morning.
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Napoleon was the second of several children in a
large family. His father, Carlo Maria de
Bounaparte and his mother Letizia Ramilino
Bonaparte belonged to an undistinguished noble
families. Napoleons father consequently sent him
to France to the military school at Brienne, when
he was ten years of age. Later on during the
years he transferred to the royal military school
in Paris, where he benefited from better teaching
and stern discipline. Napoleon was not very
successful scholastically, he showed natural
ability in mathematics and history, and also had
great confidence in his own judgment. He
displayed persistence in making decisions.
Napoleon at the age of 16 was commissioned as a
second lieutenant of artillery in the year of
1786. Within three months of service with a
regiment he had gone through the ranks of
private, corporal and sergeant. After the death
of Louis XVI, Napoleon was given significant
opportunity to display his ability his ability as
a military leader. In the year of 1793 Napoleon
was able to lead a bold assault on Toulon,
freeing it from the British forces. For his
defeat Napoleon was given control of the
artillery units in France and Italy. In 1797,
Austria made peace with France in the Treaty of
Campo Formio, and Napoleon returned to France as
a national hero. Napoleon embodied several
characteristics of the French Revolution through
his active reign as Emperor. His education
system, centralization of the bank, standard of
the coinage and implementation of his civil law
code, known as the Code of Napoleon, unified the
political and economic structure of France, while
inducing deep feelings of Nationalism and pride
among the people. The Concordat of 1801 also
inspired nationalism in that it enabled Catholics
in France to give their support to the Napoleonic
regime with a clear conscience, while remaining
true to their religion. Before Napoleon became an
emperor he attended a ceremony were he was going
to be crowned, when he arrived the pope was to
pass the crown to him, but Napoleon crowned
himself, he took the crown from the pope and put
in on his own head, this gave signal that the
church had no authority over the king. Napoleon
owed his fame and eventually his position as
emperor to his inept ability as a military leader.
All just Crown myself.
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Conclusion
The events of the French Revolution contributed
each on the growth of democracy because they all
had one thing in common, the wanted to be able to
have their freedom. They wanted to be able, not
to rule themselves, but to be able to be equal
so they all can have the same amount of power in
either, taxation or just simply freedom of
speech, they wanted everything and everyone to
be the same. They only wanted the king to rule
them so that they would not end up killing each
other, but the kings didn't think like that they
just thought about how to make money and how to
gain power, this was not working for French
people, even though they divided into three
different estates they still wanted to be
represented the same as if they were in the
first or in the second estate.  Surly many of
the events that went on in the French Revolution
contributed in the rise of democracy such as the
Tennis court oath, the Fall of Bastille, the
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and
the Reign of Terror all had a major part.
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