THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
THE REVOLUTION ADVANCES

• National Assembly voted to curtail Kings power

• King called in troops

• Women staged protest

• Marched to Versailles

• Brought King back to Paris under guard

• National Assembly now ruling in name of nation

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
THE REVOLUTION ADVANCES

• By end of 1789, all Paris in ferment

• Proliferation of clubs salons

• JACOBINS most radical, take leading role

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT WORK

• Tried to resolve fiscal crisis work out new
  laws

• Targeted Catholic Church for sweeping changes

• Attack on church caused popular backlash

• Revolution began to lose support from masses

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
LOUIS XVIS EFFORTS

• Attempted escape from France

• But captured brought back under house arrest

• Captors discover anti-constitutional plot

• Anti-monarchical forces gain support

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
THE CONSTITUTION OF 1791

• Created limited monarchy with clear separation
  of powers

• Elections based on fairly wide suffrage

• Women denied political rights

• Civil political equality extended to Jews

• But denied to free Blacks in Caribbean

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
FOREIGN THREATS

• Counter-revolutionary aristocrats enlist
  Austrian Prussian support

• Louis pressured to declare war on Austria

• Frances disorganized army defeated

• Anti-monarchical feeling grows

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
THE SANS-CULOTTES

• Ordinary Parisians took matters into their own
  hands

• Arrested king, Aug. 1792

• Dissolved Assembly, created NATIONAL CONVENTION
• elections based on universal manhood suffrage
• established republic

• Executed Louis, Jan. 1793

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
THE TERROR

• COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY created

• Arrested moderate Girondins

• Maximilien Robespierre pushes for use of terror

• LAW OF SUSPECTS passed

• Steady stream of arrests, executions began, Oct.
  1793
• Resulted in over 36,000 deaths

Death of Jean-Paul Marat
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
REFORMS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

• Radical changes

• Lowered food prices, extended education,
  abolished slavery, legalized divorce

• LEVEE EN MASSE

• Standardized weights measures, changed calendar

• Tried to replace Christianity with Cult of the
  Supreme Being

• Outlawed womens political participation

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.
END OF THE TERROR

• Robespierre executed so many, lost base of
  support

• French Army defeated Austrians, ends state of
  emergency

• Convention moved against Robespierre co.

• Executed July 28, 1794