By Megan Courie Period 6 Enlightened Ideals National Assembly Limited and Constitutional monarchy Declaration of the Rights of Man ID: 524109
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1986- To what extent and in what ways was the French Revolution during the period 1789 through the Reign of Terror (1794) an attempt to create a government based on Enlightened ideals?
By : Megan CouriePeriod : 6Slide2
Enlightened Ideals : National Assembly Limited and Constitutional monarchy Declaration of the Rights of Man
National Assembly BackgroundStarted when Louis XVI’s minister of finance convinced the king.The assembled notables demands
Louis XVI trying to surpass the law
Louis XVI beaten in 1788
Estates General spring sessionThe three estates petitionThe third estateOath of the Tennis Court Slide3
Limited and Constitutional MonarchyAugust 27, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man -Became popular throughout the world
-Maintained mankind’s natural rights -Individual freedoms -Equality in the courts and law -Representative government for a sovereign people
How much power should the king have?
Women
“We are going to cut off her head, tear out her heart, fry her liver, and that won’t be the end of it,”The National Assembly -Abolished the French Nobility -Constitutional monarchyThe final constitution
New laws
- Women 1. Divorce 2. Property 3. No voting Slide4
Put-out system
Marie Antoinette
Women could now….Slide5
The French Revolution Timeline May 5, 1789: Estates General convene at Versailles
June 17, 1789: Third estate declares itself the National AssemblyJune 20, 1789: Oath of the Tennis Court is swornJuly 14, 1789: Storming of the Bastille occursAugust 4, 1789: National Assembly abolishes feudal privilegesAugust 27, 1789: National Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man
October 5, 1789: Women march on Versailles and force royal family to return to Paris.
November 1789: National Assembly confiscates church lands.
July 1790: Civil constitution of the clergy establishes a national church. Louis XVI reluctantly agrees to accept a constitutional monarchy.June 1791: Royal family is arrested while attempting to flee France.August 1791: Austria and Prussia issue the Declaration of Pillnitz.April 1792: France declares war on Austria.August 1792: Parisian mob attacks the palace and take Louis XVI prisoner
September 1792: September Massacres occur
National convention declares France a republic and abolishes monarchy. January 1793: Louis XVI is executedFebruary 1793: France declares war on Britain, Holland and Spain. Revolts take place in some provincial cities.March 1793: Bitter struggle occurs in the National Convention between Girondists and the Mountain.Slide6
April-June 1793 : Robespierre and the Mountain organize the Committee of public safety and arrest
Girondist leadersSeptember 1793: Price controls are instituted to aid the sans-culottes and mobilize the war effort.1793-1794: Reign or Terror darkens Paris and the provinces.Spring 1794: French armies are victorious on all fronts. July 1794: Robespierre is executed.
Thermidorian reaction begins1795-1799: Directory rules1795: Economic controls are abolished, and suppression of the san-culottes begins.1797: Napoleon defeats Austrian armies in Italy and returns to Paris1798: Austria, Great Britain, and Russia form the Second Coalition against France.1799: Napoleon overthrows the Directory and seizes power.Slide7
Girondist and the Mountain were the two groups who controlled the Natural Convention.
- “I am innocent and shall die without fear. I would that my death might bring happiness to the French, and ward off the dangers which I foresee.” - The National Convention disagreed on the conviction of Louis XVI, the slim minority of the votes sentenced him to death.