1. Radical Days Bell Work #3 It states that they bought this century old house for there parents which is a national landmark

2. DOWNFALL OF THE MONARCHY  A crowd of Parisians invaded the Tuileries on August 10, 1792, and slaughtered the king’s guards. The royal family fled to the legislative Assembly.  A month later, citizens attacked the prisons that were holding nobles and priests accused of political offenses. These prisoners were killed, along with many ordinary criminals.  In fact, most were ordinary citizens fired to fury by real and imagined grievances.

3. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC  Backed by Paris crowds, radicals took control of the Assembly. Radicals called for the election of a new legislative body, the National Convention. Suffrage, the right to vote, was to be extended to all male citizens, not just to property owners.  The Jacobins, who controlled the Convention, set out to erase all traces of the old order. They seized lands of nobles and abolished titles of nobility. All French men and women were now called “Citizens.”

4. DEATH OF A KING AND QUEEN  The Convention also put Louis XVI on trial as a traitor to France. The king was convicted by a single vote and sentenced to death.  On January 1793, the king tried to speak but was drowned out by the playing of drums. Moments later, the king was beheaded.  In October, Marie Antoinette was also executed. The popular press celebrated her death. “The Widow Capet,” however, showed great dignity as she went to her death. Their son, the uncrowned Louis XVII, died of unknown causes in the dungeons of the revolution.

5. THE CONVENTION UNDER SIEGE  By early 1793, danger threatened France on all sides. The country was at war with much of Europe, including Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and Prussia.  In Paris, the sans-culottes demanded relief from food shortages and rising prices. The Convention itself was bitterly divided between Jacobins and a rival group, the Girondins.

6. COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFTEY  To deal with the threats to France, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety. It prepared France for all- out war, ordering all citizens to join the war effort.  French recruits marched off to defend the republic Young officers developed effective new tactics to win battles with masses of ill-trained but patriotic forces. Soon, French armies overran the Netherlands and later invaded Italy. AT home, they cr4ushed peasant revolts.

7. ROBESPIERRE  Robespierre, a shrewd lawyer and politician, quickly rose to the leadership of the Committee of Public Safety. Among Jacobins, his selfless dedication to the revolution earned him the nickname “the incorruptible.” Enemies called him a tyrant.  “Liberty cannot be secured,” he cried “unless criminals lose their heads.”

8. REIGN OF TERROR  Robespierre was a chief architect of the Reign of Terror, which lasted from about July 1793 to July 1794. Revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials. Spectators greeted death sentences with cries of “Hail the Republic!” or “Perish the traitors!”  Perhaps 40,000 people died during the Terror. About 15 percent were nobles and clergy. Another 15 percent were middle-class citizens. The rest were peasants and sanculottes involved in riots or revolts against the Republic. Many were executed, including victims of mistaken identity or false accusation by their neighbors.  The engine of the Terror was the guillotine. Its fast-falling blade extinguished life instantly. Fearing for their own lives, the Convention turned on the Committee of Public Safety. Once the heads of Robespierre and other radicals fell, executions slowed down dramatically.

9. REACTION AND DIRECTORY  In reaction to the Terror, the revolution entered a third stage.  Moderates produced another constitution, the third since 1789. The Constitution of 1795 set up a five man Directory and a two house legislature elected by male citizens of property.  When rising bread stirred hungry sans-culottes to riot, the Directory quickly suppressed them.  As chaos threatened, politicians turned to a popular military hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. They planned to use him to advance their own goals a bad miscalculation! Before long, Napoleon would outwit them all to become ruler of France.

10. WOMEN IN REVOLUTION  Jeanne Roland supported the revolution through her writings, her salon, and her influence on her husband, a government minister.  Many women were disappointed when the Declaration of the Rights of Man did not grant equal citizenship to women. So Roland and a Journalist named Olympe de Gouges demanded equal rights in there Declaration of the Rights of women.  But by 1793 women were right back were they started and did not receive the same rights as men.

11. CHANGES IN DAILY LIFE  By 1799, the 10-year old French Revolution had dramatically changed France. It had dislodged the old social order, overthrown the monarchy, and brought the Church under state control.  Nationalism- was an aggressive feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country, spread throughout France.