A Revolution in Phases

Influence of American Revolution ‘Ancien Regime’- social order of France Staggering Debt of the French under Louis XVI

Louis XVI-tax nobility? Estates General-ruling of the Parlement of Paris on voting, by Estate. National Assembly-third estate liberals Establishment of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen Tennis Court Oath

Bread riots½ nearing starvation Fearing attack by King, mobs stormed Bastille

Lead to the capture of the Monarchy.

Key points:Nobility abolished Lawmaking in the hands of the National Assembly Promotion of Economic equality

National Assembly confiscates Church lands Arouses attention of the rest of Europe Image: liberation of Church

King and Queen: Flight to Varenne

Republican France-1792 National Convention Girondists and Jacobins Maximilliam Robesierre

France declares premptive war against most of Europe (1 st Coalition-2 nd Coalition)

Unite with “Sans- Culottes” (laboring middling class). Helped Robespierre and Jacobin overthrow Girondin and establish a “dictatorship”- Committee on Public Safety

Defeating the first coalition Planned economy Ruled all aspects of life Goal: eliminate opposition in France and abroad

Execution of Robespierre, re- establishment of reason. Economic controls abolished. Riots suppressed. Directory (5 man executive) established

Overthrew directory Civil Code-equality under the law for males Confirmed the gains of peasants Centralized government Freedom of worship for Catholics-Concordat of 1801 Order and Stability in France A system in which there was no political freedom and no rights for women. Established:

Part I: Expanding France Part II: Satellite states Part III: Loyal Allies

Defeated the Second Coalition Napoleon’s territorial dominance led to the third coalition against France Battle of Trafalgar stunning naval defeat-ended hopes of British invasion.

Defeated third coalition, and reorganized German states into the confederation of the Rhine.

Treaty of Tilsit gave France ½ of Prussia and victory over the Russians. Establishment of the Grand Empire Goal-continental Europe!

Staggering defeat in Russian Invasion Final defeat at Waterloo--exile

France comes full circle beginning with a monarch and unequal social system and ending with a emperor with strict social restrictions.