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The French Revolution
1 The begging of the Modern
Ages
Annotations:
- -Enlightened despots failed -Political Revolution ended in Ancien Régime -French Revolution slogan:`Liberty, equality and fraternity.´
2 Causes of the French Revolution
2.1 The Influence of the Enlightenment
Annotations:
- -French intellectuals and the burgeoisie supported Enlightenment ideas and tried to put thm into practise.
2.2 The political Crisis
Annotations:
- -Estates General brought representatives of the three estates of the realm. -Louis XVI (1774-1792)
2.3 The ecoconomic Crisis
Annotations:
- -French state bankrupt -Militar conflicts such as the American War of Independence
2.4 The social Crisis
Annotations:
- -Nobility and clergy wanted to protect their traditional economic privileges. -Middle class and the peasantry: ·bourgeoisie abolish absolute monarch ·petit bourgeoisie suffer from economic difficulties ·peasantry suffered economic problems so they had to pay higher rent
3 Mayor Events of the French Revolution
Annotations:
- -Louis XVI decided to call together the Estates General in 1788 to increase taxes.
3.1 The National Assembly
Annotations:
- -Cahier of Doleances
3.2 The Constituent Assembly
Annotations:
- -1st draft of the Constitution -Storming of Bastille (1789) -Legal Reforms -Flight to Varemes -Tennis Court Oath -New Constitution was signed
3.3 The Legislative Assembly
Annotations:
- -Constitution: New Assembly -2 groups: Girandists suffrage (limited male) and represented the interests of the bourgeoisie and the Jacobins suffrage (universal) and they gained support from the Parsian labourers known as the sans-culottes -Louis XVI -Internal problems -Externals problems
3.4 The National Convention
Annotations:
- 2 stages: ·Girandin Convention - republican proclamation Louis XVI accused of Treason republican calendar- day 1: 22/9 new warinternational counter revolution (La Vandée) ·Jacobin Convention -dictatorship called "terror": executions -Government deal with the European War and the Internal Counter Revolution -New laws -1794: Robespierre removed from power
3.5 The Directory and the Consulate
Annotations:
- -Directory ·moderate middle classes gained control of France ·more conservative government: 5 Directors in charge ·censitary suffrage (limited more suffrage) ·Constitution of year III ·radically wanted to gain control: Napoleon coup d´etat -The Consulate ·Napoleon Bonaparte organised a military coup and stablished a new form of government called the Consulate. He include himself as head of state and First Consul.
