1. The French Revolution Unfolds
Cornell Notes

2. Famine – 80% of income to buy bread!
National Assembly created in June 1789 at the Estates-General
Gave power to the Bourgeoisie
Set off by RUMORS
Government troops attacking Peasants
Crops DESTROYED
Peasants react violently
Factions competed for power
Marquis de Lafayette leads National Guard
Paris Commune  Radical
Political Crisis Leads to Revolt
Great Fear
Paris Commune

3. Peasant actions cause reaction
Met in all-nighter
Nobles agreed to get rid of manorial dues, hunting rights, and tax exemptions
“Feudalism is abolished”
Equality?
“All men born and remain free and equal in rights”
Government’s job is to PROTECT the citizens
Freedom of Religion and tax based on ability to pay
Louis didn’t want to accept
Nobles still feasting!
The National Assembly Acts
End of Special Privileges
Declaration of the Rights of Man

4. Demanded to see King & his return to Paris
October 5, 1789
6,000 women marched 13 miles
Demanded to see King & his return to Paris
Angry at Queen Marie Antoinette
Luxury while people were starving
Compassionate but against reforms
Forced royal family back to Paris
National Assembly took control and issued
Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)
Bishops and Priests became elected & salaried
Ended Papal authority
Pope condemned
Peasants also rejected
Women March on Versailles
Church Under State Control

5. Created a limited monarchy Legislative Assembly
Made laws, collected taxes, made war decisions
Elected by tax paying males over 25
Reflected Enlightenment
Put power in hands of the wealthy
June 1791
King dressed as servant, Queen dressed as governess, and royal children traveled by coach
Caught in the act
Seen as a traitor
Constitution of 1791
Louis Attempts Escape

6. Border Patrols to keep out the “French Plague”
Émigrés told horror stories
Catherine the Great burned Voltaire's letters
Declaration of Pilnitz
Austria and Prussia threatened to protect the monarchy
Radicals Take Over
Rulers fear Revolution
Threats from Abroad

7. October 1791 – Legislative Assembly takes office
Lasts less than 1 year
Inflation leads to hoarding and shortages
Sans-Culottes
Demand a republic
Supported by Jacobins
April 1792
Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria, Prussia, Britain, and other states
Supposed to be quick
Lasts until 1815
Radicals Declare WAR
National Assembly’s War on Tyranny