The French Revolution

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The French Revolution "Conservative"
Phase 1794-1799
By Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S.
Chappaqua, NY
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Revolt of Prairial, Year III (1795)
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Constitution of the Year III (1795)

• Conservative, monarchist victory.
• Elections are nullified.
• Martial law is imposed.
• Creates the Directory and institutionalized the
  ThermidoreanReaction. 5-man oligarchy.
  avoid a dictatorship

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Characteristics of the Directory

• The Paris Commune was outlawed.
• The Law of 22 Prairial was revoked.
• People involved in the original Terror were now
  attacked. ? White Terror
• Inflation continues.
• Rule by rich bourgeois liberals.
• Self-indulgence ? frivolous culturesalons
  return wild fashions.
• Political corruption.
• Revival of Catholicism.

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Political Instability 1795-1796

• April, 1795 ? Inflation bread
  riots.
• October, 1795 ? Revolt of the
  right. Vendée and Brittany revolted.
  military suppressed them.
• May, 1796 ? First communist
  revolt Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy
  of Equals

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18 Brumaire (Nov. 9, 1799)

• Coup détat by Napoleon.
• Approved by a plebiscite in December.
• Abbe Sieyes Confidence from below
  authority from above.

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Bibliographic Resources

• Hist210Europe in the Age of Revolutions.http
  //www.ucl.ac.uk/history/courses/europe1/chron/rch5
  .htm
• Liberty, Fraternity, Equality Exploring the
  French Revolution. http//chnm.gmu.edu/revolution
  /
• Matthews, Andrew. Revolution and Reaction
  Europe, 1789-1849. CambridgeUniversity Press,
  2001.
• The Napoleonic Guide. http//www.napoleonguide
  .com/index.htm