The French Revolution and Its Impact

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The French Revolution and Its Impact

• Readings Spodek, pp. 539-547

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France is a Mess!!

• France was involved in the American Revolution
  from 1778-1783.
• Government was unwieldy.
• Weather was a big problem especially in 1788.

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King Louis XVI

• He agrees to recall the Estates General
• Spring of 1789 there was the Cahiers de
  Doleances.
• May 5, 1789 The Estates meet in Versailles.
• From May 5-June 17, 1789 The Third Estate
  boycotts the Estates General

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The Revolution of 1789

• The Bastille is stormed on July 14, 1789.
• Freeing the Enslaved

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Timeline of the French Revolution (continued)

• Peasants Revolt
• Weathervanes
• Night of August 4
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
  (August 27,1789)
• March on Versailles
• Constitution
• Abolished Ecclesiastical Orders
• Growing Power of Clubs

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Timeline Continued

• Flight of King
• The Legislative Assembly
• War of the First Coalition
• Violence in Paris
• The National Convention
• Monarchy Abolished

• Committee of Public Safety becomes all powerful
• Rules by General Will
• Robespierre is in the center.
• They abolish slavery

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Robespierre
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Timeline continued

• Constitution of Year III
• The Terror
• Fall of Robespierre
• The Directory
• Napoleon

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Napoleon and Louis XVIII

• Napoleon makes himself emperor
• Napoleonic Law Code
• Louis XVIII reigns as a constitutional monarch

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St. Helena Island
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Who Won and Who lost?

• Rich Males in the short run
• All males in the long run
• Maybe peasants or at least some peasants in some
  places

• Women
• Agrarian Worker
• Slaves after Napoleon restores slavery
• The nobility who left France
• The Church