1. Tennis Court Oath Bastille Day September Massacres National Assembly Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Civil Constitutional of the Clergy Olympe De Gouges French Rev. II

2. The Revolution Begins – GAME ON!
Part One

3. How does each group push the Revolution forward?
CONTRIBUTION
BOURGEOISIE
URBAN POOR
“Sans Cullotes”
PEASANTS
WOMEN

4. Third Estate Acts
In frustration, the Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly (6/17/89)
Has the power to pass and execute laws
Louis XVI locks them out of meeting place
Third Estate meets in indoor tennis court and swears to not leave until passing a constitution
Tennis Court Oath

5. Tennis court oath

6. Urban Unrest Poor harvest had led to starving families in the cities
Soaring bread prices, 25% unemployment, fears of the military
An angry mob looks for weapons to defend themselves – finds the Bastille (7/14/89)
The mob storms the Bastille, kills the guard, and takes the weapons
Paris is lost to King Louis XVI

8. Country Chaos – Great Fear
Spirit of rebellion comes to the countryside – peasants look to free themselves of their obligations
Peasants launch the Great Fear (7/89) – a series of peasant mobs roaming the lands and destroying noble property

9. The National Assembly Responds
8/4/89 – Abolishment of feudalism and proclamation of absolute equality
No serfdom, no hunting rights, no corvee
Equal taxes – no estate system
Peasants are THRILLED and SATISFIED

10. Embracing Equality Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Became the constitutional blueprint for France
Guaranteed natural rights
Liberty – freedom to do whatever as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else
“Citizen” applied to all French people
Rights of Women
Declaration of the Rights of Woman – Olympe de Gouges
Rights to divorce, inherit property, get child support

11. Now let’s examine the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Which right stated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen do you think would be most important to a member of the third estate and why?

12. Women Make the Next Move
The “Revolution” cools, but…
bread shortages
writings of Jean-Paul Marat
incite 7K angry women to march to Versailles (10/89)
Demand king to address problems
Violent scene takes place…King and Queen are captured and taken back to Tuleries
Price controls on bread
National Assembly moves to Paris as well
Conservative revolutionaries begin to stop seeking changes

13. How does each group push the Revolution forward?
CONTRIBUTION
BOURGEOISIE
Tennis Court Oath
Creation of the National Assembly
URBAN POOR
Storming of the Bastille
PEASANTS
The Great Fear
Abolishment of Estate System
WOMEN
Declaration of the Rights of Woman Women’s March to Versailles

14. Now let’s examine Women during the Revolution
On the website open up Women in the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution and turn to Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen?
How is this document different from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?

15. Continue Reading through Power Point this weekend

16. The Revolution Grows
Part Two

17. Change! With the National Assembly and King in France…
Government reform
Constitutional Monarchy + Legislative Assembly
France divided into 83 departments
Economic reform – favored the bourgeoisie
Metric system
Le Chapelier Law – outlaws strikes, monopolies, and unions
Assignats become new paper currency

18. Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)
Created a national church – one church per department
Puts the Church under the State’s control
Clergy cannot accept authority of the Pope
Clergymen will be paid by the state and elected
Convents and monasteries are abolished
Divides France over the issue of religion
Refractory clergy – refuse to accept measures
Peasants disagree – they are heavily Catholic
Choice – revolutionary spirit OR religious devotion?

19. Escape? Louis XVI and family attempt to escape to Austria in June 1791
Caught at the border
Effect on reputation?
Effect on relations with Austria?
Forced to accept constitutional monarchy

20. Government Transformation
A new group will replace the National Assembly – known as the Legislative Assembly (L.A.)
More radical, younger, and less cautious
Led by the Jacobins, who draw from Rousseau’s ideas of complete equality

21. WAR! Prussia/Austria issue the Declaration of Pillnitz
Protect royal family if they come under attack – serves as a bluff but the French take it serious
Emigres who flee France urge AUS and PRU to restore the monarchy
L.A. declares war on Austria in April 1792 – looks to spread “revolution”
Little success for France – blamed on Louis XVI

22. Foreign Threats  Internal Chaos
Prussia/Austria issue Brunswick Manifesto
Royal family harmed? – they will destroy Paris
Incites Jacobin-led mobs throughout Paris (urban poor!!!)
King taken under armed guard
Paris Commune (Summer 1792)
In chaos, revolutionary gov’t usurps power from L.A. in Paris
Led by Georges Danton
Constitution is suspended to account for new threats

23. September Massacres (1792)
Prussia advances on Paris…threatens invasion
Led by Paris Commune, killing of upper class prisoners in jails
Why kill them?
1000+ people are killed