1. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT.

2. THE REVOLUTION ADVANCES  National Assembly voted to curtail King’s power  King called in troops  Women staged protest  Marched to Versailles  Brought King back to Paris under guard  National Assembly now ruling in name of “nation”

3. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. THE REVOLUTION ADVANCES  By end of 1789, all Paris in ferment  Proliferation of clubs & salons  JACOBINS: most radical, take leading role

4. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT WORK  Tried to resolve fiscal crisis & work out new laws  Targeted Catholic Church for sweeping changes  Attack on church caused popular backlash  Revolution began to lose support from masses

5. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. LOUIS XVI’S EFFORTS  Attempted escape from France  But captured & brought back under house arrest  Captors discover anti- constitutional plot  Anti-monarchical forces gain support

6. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1791  Created limited monarchy with clear separation of powers  Elections based on fairly wide suffrage  Women denied political rights  Civil & political equality extended to Jews  But denied to free Blacks in Caribbean

7. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. FOREIGN THREATS  Counter-revolutionary aristocrats enlist Austrian & Prussian support  Louis pressured to declare war on Austria  France’s disorganized army defeated  Anti-monarchical feeling grows

8. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. THE SANS-CULOTTES  Ordinary Parisians took matters into their own hands  Arrested king, Aug. 1792  Dissolved Assembly, created NATIONAL CONVENTION  elections based on universal manhood suffrage  established republic  Executed Louis, Jan. 1793

9. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. THE TERROR  COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY created  Arrested moderate Girondins  Maximilien Robespierre pushes for use of “terror”  LAW OF SUSPECTS passed  Steady stream of arrests, executions began, Oct. 1793  Resulted in over 36,000 deaths Death of Jean-Paul Marat

10. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. REFORMS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION  Radical changes  Lowered food prices, extended education, abolished slavery, legalized divorce  LEVEE EN MASSE  Standardized weights & measures, changed calendar  Tried to replace Christianity with Cult of the Supreme Being  Outlawed women’s political participation

11. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CONT. END OF THE TERROR  Robespierre executed so many, lost base of support  French Army defeated Austrians, ends state of emergency  Convention moved against Robespierre & co.  Executed July 28, 1794