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The French Revolution: The Radical Phase
Strong reactions in neighboring countries sparked the radical phase of the revolution which resulted in the establishment of the First French Republic.
Slide2Most were satisfied with initial reforms but the
Jacobin
party pushed for a republic, no king
Girondists
The Mountain
June, 1791 Louis XVI attempts to flee France
August, 1791 Declaration of
Pillnitz
Early 1792 Prussia and Austria invade France at the request of Louis XVI and
émigrés
April, 1792 France declares war on Austria and Prussia
Legislative Assembly deposed Louis XVI and called for an election of a
National Convention
to write a new constitution
Slide3Summer of 1792 the
sans-culottes
emerge as major players in the
Paris Commune
and they wanted an economic revolution to follow the political revolution
September Massacres of 1972
September, 1792
First
French
Republic
proclaimed
Abolished imprisonment for debt
Abolished slavery
Adopted the metric
system
Divorce initiated by women
Planned a national educations system
Prohibited primogeniture
New calendar established
Established the Cult
of the Supreme Being
Citizen Louis Capet, formerly Louis XVI, executed January 21,
1793
February, 1793 Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain get involved in the war against revolutionary France
Slide4After the execution of Louis XVI, radicals republicans responded to opposition at home and war abroad by instituting the Reign of Terror, fixing prices and wages, and pursuing a policy of de-Christianization
April
, 1793
Committee of Public Safety
formed headed by Maximillian Robespierre
June, 1793
Law 22
Prairial
August,
1793
Levee
en Masse
mobilization of the economy for the war
military draft for all unmarried men
military was 3 to 4 times the size of the enemies
y
oung men rose up the ranks based on abilities instead blood (Napoleon)
birth
of modern
nationalism
c
itizen-soldiers
fought enthusiastically not for their province or city, feudal lord or king, but for
their nation.
Slide5Reign
of Terror (
fall 1793
to summer 1794)
300,000
arrested and
40,000 executed
Domestic opposition to the revolution was crushed
July, 1794
Thermidorian
Reaction
Eventually
the public turned against the Terror and its
leaders and
the moderates regained controlled of the National
Convention
Constitution of Year III
The Directory